TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piskorska,Agnieszka
TI  - Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics
T2  - Figurative Thought and Language Series
SN  - 9789027261199
AV  - P99.4.P72 
U1  - 306.44 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The literal-figurative language continuum and optimally relevant interpretations -- 1. Non-literalness in inferential communication -- 2. Contributions to this volume -- 3. Some questions for the future -- References -- Continua in non-literalness -- 1. Category extension as a variety of loose use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical modulation -- 2.1 Ad hoc concept construction: Narrowing and broadening -- 3. Category extension -- 4. Types of category extension -- 4.1 Limited category extensions -- 4.2 Creative category extensions -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. Metonymic relations - from determinacy to indeterminacy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cognitive linguistics on metonymy -- 3. A relevance-theoretic treatment of metonymy involving contextual cognitive fix -- 4. Metonymy and cognitive effects -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Concepts, procedures and discourse effects -- 3. Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Things we do with words -- 3. Style and relevance -- 4. Properties of prototypical participial adjectives -- 5. On the evidential function of some past participles -- 5.1 Evidentials and epistemic vigilance -- 5.2 What evidential participles communicate -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 4. The Greek connective 'gar': Different genres, different effects? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Traditional and linguistic accounts of 'gar' -- 3. Argumentation and narrative -- 3.1 Defining argumentation and narrative -- 3.2 'Gar' in argumentation and narrative -- 4. A procedural account of 'gar' -- 4.1 Blass's proposed account of 'gar' -- 4.2 Examples of 'gar' in argumentation and hortatory material; 4.3 'Gar' in narrative texts -- 5. Different stylistic effects? -- 6. Epistemic vigilance and stylistic effects? -- 7. Communicator goals, expectations of relevance and stylistic effects -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- 5. Metarepresentation markers in Indus Kohistani: A study with special reference to the marker of desirable utterances 'loo' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Analyses of evidential and quotation markers -- 2.1.1 Evidentials -- 2.1.2 Grammaticalized quotation markers and complementizers -- 2.2 Relevance theory -- 2.2.1 Conceptual vs. procedural encoding -- 2.2.2 Linguistic metarepresentations -- 2.3 Indus Kohistani markers of metarepresentation -- 3. The Indus Kohistani marker 'loo' -- 3.1 Uses of the marker 'loo' -- 3.1.1 'loo' as indicator of desirable utterances -- 3.1.2 'loo' as indicator of third person imperative -- 3.1.3 Summary: Uses of the marker 'loo' -- 3.2 Analysis of the marker 'loo' -- 3.2.1 Non-attributive metarepresentations -- 3.2.2 Indus Kohistani 'loo': A procedural indicator of metarepresentations of desirable utterances -- 3.3 The marker 'loo' in third person imperative constructions -- 3.3.1 Comparison between "desirable utterances" metarepresentations and third person imperative constructions -- 3.4 Indus Kohistani third person imperative: A special case of desirable utterance -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Multimodality and style -- 6. When 'EVERYTHING' STANDS OUT, *Nothing* Does: Typography, expectations and procedures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typography and language -- 2.1 Typography and linguistics -- 2.2 Typography and prosody -- 3. Relevance theory and procedural meaning -- 4. Typography, procedures and relevance -- 4.1 Typography and interpretation -- 4.2 Expectations and effects -- 4.3 Typography as a natural highlighting device; 5. Summary, conclusion and next steps -- References -- 7. Relevance, style and multimodality: Typographical features as stylistic devices -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background: Telops on Japanese TV -- 2. Typographical features, stylistics and multimodal analysis -- 2.1 Suitability of typographical features -- 2.2 Social semiotic approach to typography: Multimodal analysis of fonts -- 2.3 Issues with the multimodal approach -- 3. Relevance theory and pragmatic effects -- 4. Case study: Theoretical explanation and reception study of viewer behaviour -- 4.1 Research question and research design -- 4.2 Telops and typographical features -- 4.3 Typographical features and interpretation - telops and relevance theory -- 4.3.1 "Affective" interpretation and typographical features -- 4.3.2 Propositional attitudes and typographical features -- 5. An empirical approach to telops -- 5.1 Methodology: Eye-tracking -- 5.2 Results: Eye-tracking data -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Sources of visual material -- Appendix. Visualisations of all participants -- Pragmatic effects and emotions -- 8. Towards a relevance-theoretic account of hate speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Hate speech: Some legal, social and pragmatic issues -- 4. Some terminological refinements -- 5. Understanding covert hate speech in relevance-theoretic terms -- 6. The 'thin skin' phenomenon vs. cognitive vigilance. Understanding of hate speech by targeted audiences -- 7. Slurs and quasi-slurs -- 8. The hate component -- 9. Instances of non-literalness of hate speech -- 10. Conclusions -- References -- 9. Tropes of ill repute: Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Puns as 'wayward' stylistic devices -- 3. Vocalizations that cash in on ambiguity -- HOMONYMY: -- POLYSEMY: -- HOMOPHONY: -- IMPERFECT HOMOPHONY: -- PARONYMY; 4. Puns as victims of the western flight from ambiguity -- 5. Puns as deviations from linguistic and communicative norms -- 5.1 Puns as mistakes or anomalies -- 5.2 Puns as violations of gricean maxims of conversation -- 6. Relevance-theoretic model and the perception of puns -- 6.1 Reservations about the model's adequacy for tackling the emotional reactions to puns -- 6.2 A tainted concept: Hanging a dog that's been given a bad name -- 6.3 Key properties of punning utterances -- 6.4 Language users' expectations about verbal inputs and the ways they are subverted in puns -- 7. Consequences of puns falling short of expectations of relevance -- 7.1 The 'Necker cube effect': Unease at being unable to disambiguate -- 7.2 Nothing but sound? Irritation at the punster's sometimes dubious informative intention -- 7.3 Offering 'fool's gold': Annoyance at the often problematic cognitive effects -- 7.4 'Here we go again': Resentment at being made to do the same mental work twice -- 7.5 I seem to be missing something: The embarrassment at failing to construct an adequate context -- 7.6 The indignation at being made to ponder the inner workings of verbal processing -- 8. Concluding remarks -- References -- Stylistic effects in literary works -- 10. Another look at "Cat in the rain": A cognitive pragmatic approach to text analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Implicature in relevance theory -- 3. Strong and weak implicatures and reference assignments in literary texts -- 4. Approaches to the identity of the two cats -- 4.1 Interpretations of the identity of the cats -- 4.2 Gricean implicature analysis -- 4.3 Strong and weak implicature analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. CAT IN THE RAIN -- 11. Echoic irony in Philip Larkin's poetry and its preservation in Polish translations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevance theory on irony; 3. Philip Larkin's echoes -- 4. Larkin's irony in translation -- 4.1 Larkin's irony in translation. Conclusion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12. Humour and irony in George Mikes' 'How to be a Brit' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretic framework -- 3. Analysis: Strategies and purposes for the conveyance of irony and humour in George Mikes' 'How to be a Brit' -- 3.1 The prefaces -- 3.2 A relevance-theoretic analysis of humour and irony in George Mikes' 'How to be a Brit' -- a. Resolution of ambiguities or disambiguation -- b. Reference assignment -- c. Enrichment or filling of a semantic gap -- d. Derivation of implicatures -- e. Irony and humour resulting from a contradiction of expectations -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Name index -- Subject index
N2  - The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style
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