Relevance theory
Subtitle: applications and implications
By: edited by Robyn Carston, Seiji Uchida.
Contributors: Carston, Robyn.; Uchida, Seiji.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond,; new ser. 37
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Relevance -- Congresses.; Pragmatics -- Congresses.; Semantics -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Based on papers presented at a conference which was held May 29-30, 1993, Osaka, Japan.
Table of contents: title: Pragmatics and time / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber; title: The Japanese adverbial yahari or yappari / Keiko Tanaka; title: A relevance-based analysis of hearsay particles : with special reference to Japanese sentence-final particle tte / Reiko Itani; title: Intonation and relevance / Kunihiko Imai; title: Metaphor and metonymy / Nam Sun Song; title: Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation / Akiko Yoshimura; title: Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment / Tomoko Matsui; title: Text and relevance / Seiji Uchida; title: Informativeness, relevance, and scalar implicature / Robyn Carston; title: On non-echoic irony / Ken-Ichi Seto; title: Irony from a cognitive perspective / Hideki Hamamoto; title: Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes / Masa-Aki Yamanashi; title: Irony and relevance : a reply to Seto, Hamamoto, and Yamanashi / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson.