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

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [1998]
©1998

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Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 58
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 58. 0922-842X
Note Papers, most of which were first delivered at two panels in the 5th International Pragmatics Conference organized by the IPrA, held July 1996 in Mexico City.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Pragmatics.
Pragmatics.
Relevance.
Relevance.
Semantics.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rouchota, Villy.
Jucker, Andreas H.
International Pragmatics Conference (5th : 1996 : Mexico City, Mexico)
Spine Title Relevance theory
Other Form: Print version: Current issues in relevance theory. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998 1556198213 (DLC) 98018678 (OCoLC)38908641
ISBN 9789027282576 (electronic book)
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