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  title info:
    title: Meaning and relevance
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Deirdre.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sperber, Dan.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies"--
  table of contents: Introduction: pragmatics -- The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon -- Truthfulness and relevance -- Rhetoric and relevance -- A deflationary account of metaphors -- Explaining irony -- Linguistic form and relevance -- Pragmatics and time -- Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance -- Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences -- Metarepresentation in linguistic communication -- Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading -- Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance -- The why and how of experimental pragmatics: the case of 'scalar inferences' -- A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language.
  note: Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Relevance
  subject:
    topic: Inference
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Inference
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Relevance
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
  classification: P325 .W479 2012eb
  classification: 401.43 401/.43
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Meaning and Relevance
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Deirdre
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2012
  identifier: 9781139338233 (electronic)
  identifier: 1139338234 (electronic)
  identifier: 9780521747486 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0521747481 (pbk.)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 120430
    record change date: 20250816205815.3
    record identifier: in00002690196
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng