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Author : Billy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521878203
The definitive introduction to relevance theory, starting from the basics and covering all its key ideas.
Author : Robyn Carston,Seiji Uchida
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285560
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.
Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443845762
The present volume covers a variety of topics which are at the centre of interest in pragmatic research: understanding and believing, reference, politeness, communication problems, stylistics, metaphor, and humour. Next to innovative theoretical proposals, there are interesting analyses and discussions.
Author : Agnieszka Piskorska,Ewa Wałaszewska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443891684
The collection of papers discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory. It also discusses relevance-theoretic analyses of special kinds of discourse, such as discourse emerging from the internet or from psychotherapeutic sessions. The volume will primarily interest relevance theorists and scholars working on the subjects addressed by particular chapters.
Author : Manuel Padilla Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266484
How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.
Author : Villy Rouchota,Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250728
Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented at the 5th International Pragmatics Conference held in July 1996 in Me×ico City. Topics covered include: the relevance theoretic approach to lingustic semantics; and the application of theory to the study of sociolinguistic theory.
Author : Sergio Maruenda Bataller
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8437054400
Author : Adrian Pilkington
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027250919
Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental processes. The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.
Author : Deirdre Wilson,Dan Sperber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521766777
When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.
Author : Kate Scott,Billy Clark,Robyn Carston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108418638
Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.
Author : Łukasz Bogucki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030518035
This book aims to investigate the process of decision-making in subtitling of feature films and entertainment series. The author uses Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson,1986) to argue that the technical, linguistic and translational constraints at work in subtitling result in a curtailed target text, and illustrates this argument by invoking examples drawn from the English-Polish subtitles of films and television series available through the subscription service Netflix. After introducing the current state of research on audiovisual translation within and outside the framework of translation studies, he presents the core concepts underpinning Relevance Theory and explains how it can be used to construct a model of the process of subtitling. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of translation studies, audiovisual translation studies, and communication studies.
Author : Billy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107244368
Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two parts - the first providing an overview of the essential machinery of the theory, and the second exploring how the original theory has been extended, applied and critically discussed. Clark offers a systematic framework for understanding the theory from the basics up, building a complete picture and providing the basis for advanced research across a range of topics. With this book, students will understand the fundamentals of relevance theory, its origins in the work of Grice, the relationship it has to other approaches, and its place within recent developments and debates.
Author : Ewa Wałaszewska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443885560
This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further research within this rapidly developing field.
Author : Jan Strassheim,Hisashi Nasu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110472509
Relevance drives our actions and channels our attention; it shapes how we make sense of the world and communicate with each other. Irrelevance spreads a twilight which blurs the line between information we do not want to access and information we cannot access. In disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, the information sciences and linguistics, “relevance” has been proposed as a key concept. This book is the first to bring together the often unrelated traditions. Researchers from different fields discuss relevance and relate it to the challenges of “irrelevance”, which have so far been neglected despite their significance for our chances of making well-informed decisions and understanding others. The contributions focus on theoretical and conceptual questions, on specific factors and fields, and on practical and political implications of relevance and irrelevance as forces which are even stronger when they remain in the background.
Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261199
The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central cases of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, puns, irony) while others deal with issues not readily associated with figurativeness (from multimodal communicative stimuli through strong and weak implicatures to discourse functions of connectives, particles and participles). Other chapters shed light on the use of specific communicative styles, ranging from hate speech to humour and humorous irony. Using the relevance-theoretic toolkit to analyse a spectrum of style-related issues, this volume makes a case for the model of pragmatics founded upon inference and continuity, understood as the non-existence of sharply delineated boundaries between classes of communicative phenomena.