Applications of Relevance Theory / edited by Agnieszka Piskorska and Ewa Walaszewska.

Format:

Book

Series:

Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Advances in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relevance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

The collection of papers discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory. It also discusses relevance-theoretic analyses of special kinds of discourse, such as discourse emerging from the internet or from psychotherapeutic sessions. The volume will primarily interest relevance theorists and scholars working on the subjects addressed by particular chapters.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Discourse and Procedural Meaning

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Part II: Specialized Discourses and Relevance Theory

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Part III: Figures of Speech in Literary Discourse

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Part IV: Humorous Discourse

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Part V: Morphological Issues and Lexical Pragmatics

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-9168-1

OCLC:

1162270545