Relevance Theory Figuration And Continuity In Pragmatics

Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261199
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics written by Agnieszka Piskorska and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robyn Carston
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250499
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance Theory written by Robyn Carston and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. It presents the full breadth of relevance theory, both in its applications to problems of utterance interpretation, that fall 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.

Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891681
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applications of Relevance Theory written by Agnieszka Piskorska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845760
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance Theory written by Agnieszka Piskorska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Manuel Padilla Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266484
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance Theory written by Manuel Padilla Cruz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fabrizio Gallai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000655563
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting written by Fabrizio Gallai and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative acts. The volume provides an overview of the cognitive approach to communication taken by RT, with a particular focus on the distinction between explicit and implicit content and the relationship between thoughts and utterances. The book begins by outlining key concepts and theory in RT pragmatics and charting the development of their disciplinary relationship with work from T&I studies. Chapters draw on practical examples from a wide range of T&I contexts, including news media, scientific materials, literary translation, audiovisual translation, conference interpreting, and legal interpreting. The book also explores the myriad applications of RT pragmatics-inspired work and future implications for translation and interpreting research. This volume will be of interest to scholars in T&I studies and pragmatics.

Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443872805
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applications of Relevance Theory written by Agnieszka Piskorska and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elly Ifantidou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270376
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Competence and Relevance written by Elly Ifantidou and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by distinct criteria and validated testing measures. More importantly, genuine pragmatic inference is elicited in contexts of online interpretation where figurative speech plays a central role. Genre-specific discourse which occurs in editorials and news reports serves as a natural testbed for examining the role of advanced mind-reading abilities in developing pragmatic competence. Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory accommodates the findings of empirical assessment and yields new insights in the cognitive procedures activated during interpretation. The comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of pragmatic competence makes this book of interest to researchers and students in pragmatics, L2 theory and applications, genre studies, and to those concerned with the cognitive underpinnings of communication in L2.

Author : Villy Rouchota
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250723
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Relevance Theory written by Villy Rouchota and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Burke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000828964
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics written by Michael Burke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience Comprises 33 chapters, each providing an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on Includes four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues