Irony and relevance

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Pragmatics and time 1
6. The Japanese adverbial yahari or yappari 23
7. A relevance-based analysis of hearsay particles 47
8. Intonation and relevance 69
9. Metaphor and metonymy 87
10. Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation 105
11. Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment 123
12. Text and relevance 161
13. Informativeness, relevance and scalar implicature 179
14. Symposium on Irony
15. On non-echoic irony 239
16. Irony from a cognitive perspective 257
17. Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes 271
18. Irony and relevance 283
19. Glossary of relevance-theoretic terms 295