What is “Phatic Communication”?

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Connectives, Coherence and Relevance 11
7. Because and although 59
8. Conceptual and Procedural Encoding 81
9. Interface Economy and Focus 105
10. A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Property Predification Restriction 141
11. Intonation and Procedural Encoding 169
12. Intonation and the Procedural Encoding of Attributed Thoughts 205
13. Modality and Semantic Underdterminacy 237
14. A Relevance-theoretic Account of Metarepresentative Uses in Conditionals 271
15. Indirect Echoes and verbal Humour 305
16. What is “Phatic Communication”? 327
17. Index 363