Relevance theory : applications and implications / edited by Robyn Carston, Seiji Uchida.

Relevance theory : applications and implications /

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 wh...

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Other Authors: Carston, Robyn, Uchida, Seiji
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins, ©1998.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 37.
Subjects:
Relevance > Congresses.
Pragmatics > Congresses.
Semantics > Congresses.
Relevance (Philosophy) > Congresses.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Pragmatics and time / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber
  • The Japanese adverbial yahari or yappari / Keiko Tanaka
  • A relevance-based analysis of hearsay particles : with special reference to Japanese sentence-final particle tte / Reiko Itani
  • Intonation and relevance / Kunihiko Imai
  • Metaphor and metonymy / Nam Sun Song
  • Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation / Akiko Yoshimura
  • Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment / Tomoko Matsui
  • Text and relevance / Seiji Uchida
  • Informativeness, relevance, and scalar implicature / Robyn Carston
  • On non-echoic irony / Ken-Ichi Seto
  • Irony from a cognitive perspective / Hideki Hamamoto
  • Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes / Masa-Aki Yamanashi
  • Irony and relevance : a reply to Seto, Hamamoto, and Yamanashi / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson.

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