Current issues in relevance theory

Current issues in relevance theory / edited by Villy Rouchota, Andreas H. Jucker.

The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance. Communication and Cognition. Several papers investigate the dist...

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Corporate Author: International Pragmatics Conference
Other Authors: Rouchota, Villy, Jucker, Andreas H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 58.
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
Relevance.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
pragmatics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Pragmatics
Relevance
Semantics
Relevantie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Connectives, coherence and relevance / Villy Rouchota
  • Because and although: a case of duality? / Corinne Iten
  • Conceptual and procedural encoding: cause-consequence conjunctive particles in Japanese / Michiko Takeuchi
  • Interface economy and focus / Richard Breheny
  • A relevance-theoretic account of the property predication restriction / Manuel Leonetti
  • Intonation and procedural encoding: the case of Spanish interrogatives / Victoria Escandell-Vidal
  • Intonation and the procedural encoding of attributed thoughts: the case of Norwegian negative interrogatives / Thorstein Fretheim
  • Modality and semantic underdeterminacy / Anna Papafragou
  • A relevance-theoretic account of metarepresentative uses in conditionals / Eun-Ju Noh
  • Indirect echoes and verbal humour / Carmen Curco
  • What is "phatic communication"? / Vladimir Zegarac.

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