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Title Current issues in relevance theory / edited by Villy Rouchota, Andreas H. Jucker
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 368 pages)
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 58
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 58. 0922-842X
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
Summary 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 distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning in order to account for the semantics of discourse connectives, for the role of intonation in utterance interpretation, and for focus phenomena. Other papers explore the role of the relevance theoretic notion of metarepresentation in utterance interpretat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pragmatics.
Relevance.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Semantics
pragmatics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Pragmatics
Relevance
Semantics
Relevantie.
Form Electronic book
Author Rouchota, Villy
Jucker, Andreas H
International Pragmatics Conference (5th : 1996 : Mexico City, Mexico)
ISBN 9789027282576
9027282579
Other Titles Relevance theory