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3 - Relevance Theory and the Broadening of Pragmatics to Explicit Meaning

from Part I - Theoretical Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Sandrine Zufferey ,
Jacques Moeschler  and
Anne Reboul
Sandrine Zufferey
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Jacques Moeschler
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
Anne Reboul
Affiliation:
Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR 5304
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Summary

This chapter focuses on relevance theory. It first introduces its main tenets, before giving a detailed presentation of the cognitive and the communicative principles of relevance. With this framework in mind, the chapter goes on to illustrate how relevance theory deals with different cases involving pragmatic enrichment. It also introduces the notion of explicature, parallel to that of implicature that was introduced in relevance theory. Finally, the chapter illustrates how some pragmatic phenomena that were previously treated as cases of implicature have been reclassified as explicatures in relevance theory.

Keywords

relevance theorycognitive principle of relevancecommunicative principle of relevancead hoc conceptsexplicaturesimplicaturesSperberWilsonCarston
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Implicatures , pp. 45 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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