Relevance Theory: Applications and ImplicationsRobyn Carston, Seiji Uchida John Benjamins Publishing, 1998 - 299 من الصفحات This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of whose work is included. The full breadth and richness of relevance theory is represented here, both in its applications to problems of utterance interpretation, that fall squarely 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. The volume comes with a comprehensive glossary of relevance-theoretic terms. |
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Contributors | |
Preface | |
Pragmatics and time | |
The Japanese adverbial Yahari or Yappari | |
With special reference to Japanese sentencefinal particle tte | |
Intonation and relevance | |
Metaphor and metonymy | |
Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation | |
Informativeness relevance and scalar implicature | |
SYMPOSIUM ONIRONY | |
On nonechoic irony | |
Irony from a cognitive perspective | |
Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes | |
A reply to Seto Hamamoto and Yamanashi | |
Glossary of Terms as Used Within Relevance Theory | |
The series PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES | |
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