Relevance theory, figuration, and continuity in pragmatics
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Relevance theory, figuration, and continuity in pragmatics
（Figurative thought and language / editors, Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston, v. 8）
J. Benjamins Pub., c2020
- : hbk
Available at 12 libraries
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
: hbk801-6-FA//8067202100118
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Introduction: The literal-figurative language continuum and optimally relevant interpretations / Agnieszka Piskorska
- Category extension as a variety of loose use / Ewa Wałaszewska
- Metonymic relations : from determinacy to indeterminacy / Maria Jodłowiec and Agnieszka Piskorska
- Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance / Manuel Padilla Cruz
- The Greek connective gar : different genres, different effects? / Sarah Casson
- Metarepresentation markers in Indus Kohistani : a study with special reference to the marker of desirable utterances loo / Beate Lubberger
- When everything stands out, nothing does : typography, expectations and procedures / Kate Scott and Rebecca Jackson
- Relevance, style and multimodality : typographical features as stylistic devices / Ryoko Sasamoto and Minako O'Hagan
- Towards a relevance-theoretic account of hate speech / Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
- Tropes of ill repute : Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance / Agnieszka Solska
- Another look at "Cat in the rain" : a cognitive pragmatic approach to text analysis / Seiji Uchida
- Echoic irony in Philip Larkin's poetry and its preservation in Polish translations / Agnieszka Walczak
- Humour and irony in George Mikes' How to be a Brit / Maria Angeles Ruiz-Moneva
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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