Meaning and relevance
"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. W...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38431944*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: pragmatics
- The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon
- Truthfulness and relevance
- Rhetoric and relevance
- A deflationary account of metaphors
- Explaining irony
- Linguistic form and relevance
- Pragmatics and time
- Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance
- Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences
- Metarepresentation in linguistic communication
- Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading
- Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance
- The why and how of experimental pragmatics: the case of 'scalar inferences'
- A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language.
