Relevance theory : recent developments, current challenges and future directions / edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz.

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Relevance Theory; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction: Three decades of relevance theory; 1. The relevance-theoretic revolution; 2. Research within relevance-theoretic pragmatics; 3. This book; References; Part I. Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses; The speaker's derivational intention; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedural indicators differ in strength; 3. Optimal and non-optimal stimuli; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements ; References; Cracking the chestnut: How intonation interacts with procedural meaning in Colloquial Singapore Engl.

1. Introduction2. Discourse particles in CSE; 3. Previous characterisations of lah; 4. A relevance-theoretic characterisation of lah; 5. The effect of intonation contour on lah; 6. Conclusion; References; Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages: A relevance-theoretic perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual and procedural distinction in relevance theory; 3. Pronominal languages in syntactic theory; 4. Pragmatic disambiguation of nominal descriptions in discourse; 5. Identificational and contrastive focus in reference assignment; 6. Conclusion; References.

Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation: The English Simple Past1. Introduction; 2. Classical descriptions; 3. Contrastive analysis of the SP; 4. Relevance-theoretic framework; 5. Annotation experiments; 6. Application to statistical machine translation systems; 7. Discussion and conclusion; References; Corpora references; Part II. Discourse issues; Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony: Current research and compatibilit; 1. Introduction: Relevance-theoretic claims on irony; 2. Source of the echo and dissociative attitude.

3. Contextual inappropriateness triggers ironic interpretation4. Dual-stage processing? Direct-access view? Graded salience hypothesis?; 5. Metarepresentations and the interpretation of irony; 6. Conclusion; References; Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions: A relevance-theoretic account; 1. Introduction; 2. Common views on ironical and rhetorical questions; 3. Common and distinct properties; 4. Inferences in rhetorical and ironical questions; 5. Implications for a theory of irony in general; 6. Conclusion; References; Part III. Interpretive processes.

Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence1. Introduction; 2. "Analysis", "control" and pragmatic inference; 3. Relevance and epistemic vigilance; 4. From theory to application; 5. The data; 6. Results; 7. Discussion; 8. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance; 1. Introduction; 2. Evidentials as genre indicators; 3. The semantics of evidentials; 4. The pragmatics of traditional stories; 5. Reported evidentials, argumentation and narratives; 6. Conclusion; References.

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