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Relevance Theory

Relevance Theory

Applications and implications

by Seiji Uchida and Robyn Carston
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/03/1998

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This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. It presents the full breadth of relevance theory, both in its applications to problems of utterance interpretation, that fall within the domain of pragmatics, and its implications for linguistic semantics. Several papers investigate and assess the theory's account of figurative uses of language, such as irony, metaphor and metonymy. Other central pragmatic issues include a relevance-driven account of generalized implicature, the role of bridging implicatures in reference assignment, the way in which different intonation patterns contribute to the relevance of an utterance, and the application of the theory to literary texts. The recently developed semantic distinction between conceptually and procedurally encoded meaning, motivated by relevance-theoretic considerations, is employed in new accounts of several Japanese particles and in a fresh perspective on the phenomenon of metalinguistic negation.
ISBN:
9789027250490
9789027250490
Category:
Semantics
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-03-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
300
Dimensions (mm):
245x164mm
Weight:
0.64kg

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