Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Three decades of relevance theory 1
5. Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
6. The speaker’s derivational intention 33
7. Cracking the chestnut 59
8. Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages 81
9. Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation 103
10. Part II: Discourse issues
11. Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony 147
12. Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions 173
13. Part III: Interpretive processes
14. Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence 193
15. Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance 239
16. Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
17. Rhetoric and cognition 261
18. Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory 287
19. Conclusion
20. Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics 307
21. Contributors 321
22. Index 325