Relevance theory, figuration, and continuity in pragmatics / edited by Agnieszka Piskorska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piskorska, Agnieszka, editor.

Series:

Figurative thought and language ; Volume 8.

Figurative Thought and Language (FTL) ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central cases of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, puns, irony) while others deal with issues not readily associated with figurativeness (from multimodal communicative stimuli through strong and weak implicatures to discourse functions of connectives, particles and participles). Other chapters shed light on the use of specific communicative styles, ranging from hate speech to humour and humorous irony. Using the relevance-theoretic toolkit to analyse a spectrum of style-related issues, this volume makes a case for the model of pragmatics founded upon inference and continuity, understood as the non-existence of sharply delineated boundaries between classes of communicative phenomena"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Literal-figurative language continuum and optimally relevant interpretations / Agnieszka Piskorska

Category extension as a variety of loose use / Ewa Wałaszewska

Metonymic relations : from determinacy to indeterminacy / Maria Jodlowiec and Agnieszka Piskorska

Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance / Manuel Padilla Cruz

The Greek connective gar : different genres, different effects? / Sarah Casson

Metarepresentation markers in Indus Kohistani : a study with special reference to the marker of desirable utterances loo / Beate Lubberger

When everything stands out, nothing does : typography, expectations and procedures / Kate Scott and Rebecca Jackson

Relevance, style and multimodality : typographical features as stylistic devices / Ryoko Sasamoto and Minako O'Hagan

Towards a relevance-theoretic account of hate speech / Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz

Tropes of ill repute : Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance / Agnieszka Solska

Another look at "Cat in the rain" : a cognitive pragmatic approach to text analysis / Seiji Uchida

Echoic irony in Philip Larkin's poetry and its preservation in Polish translations / Agnieszka Walczak

Humour and irony in George Mikes' How to be a Brit / Maria Angeles Ruiz-Moneva.

Notes:

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