Relevance Theory

Informationen zum Autor Billy Clark is a senior lecturer in English Language in the Department of Media at Middlesex University. He has considerable experience teaching relevance theory at undergraduate and postgraduate level and was editor of the 'Foundations of Linguistics' section for the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics edited by Keith Brown. Klappentext The definitive introduction to relevance theory, starting from the basics and covering all its key ideas. Zusammenfassung The definitive introduction to relevance theory. It covers the theory from the basics up! building a complete picture and providing the basis for further research in one! easy-to-read textbook. Worked examples in the text support student learning and exercises test understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Overview: 1. A first outline; 2. Origins and alternatives: Grice, relevance theory and modern pragmatics; 3. Principles of relevance; 4. Explaining inferences; Part II. Details and Developments: 5. Explicature and implicature; 6. Types of explicature; 7. Types of implicature; 8. Lexical pragmatics; 9. Figurative language: metaphor; 10. Figurative language: irony; 11. Linguistic semantics; 12. Conclusion: applications and recent developments; Appendix: key notions of relevance theory.

Product details

• Authors: Billy Clark, Clark Billy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2013
• EAN: 9780521878203
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87820-3
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 253 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics