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1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : illustrations
"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"--
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2012