Chapter
Part I: Relevance and Meaning
2 The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon
2.2 Three types of mapping
2.3 Inference and relevance
2.4 Relevance and meaning
3 Truthfulness and relevance
3.3 The case of loose use
3.5 Relevance: illustration
3.6 The explicit communication of unencoded meanings
3.7 Rethinking ‘explicit,’ ‘literal’ and ‘what is said’
4.1 A paradox and a dilemma
4.3 Literalness, looseness and metaphor
4.5 The relevance of rhetoric
5 A deflationary account of metaphors
5.2 The function of language in communication
5.3 How relevance guides inferential comprehension
5.5 The literal–loose–metaphorical continuum
5.7 Strength of contextual implications, strength of implicatures
6.1 Traditional approaches to irony
6.2 Three puzzling features of irony
6.3 The echoic account of irony
6.4 Pretence accounts of irony
6.5 Hybrid attributive–pretence accounts
6.6 Explaining the puzzling features of irony
The ironical tone of voice
Part II: Explicit and Implicit Communication
7 Linguistic form and relevance
7.2 Conveying and ostensively communicating
7.3 Linguistic and non-linguistic communication
7.4 Linguistic communication and encoding
7.5 Conceptual and non-conceptual encoding
7.6 Explicit and implicit conceptual encoding
7.7 Proposition expressed versus higher-level explicatures
7.8 Constraints on explicatures and constraints on implicatures
8.2 Temporal and causal connotations: implicatures or pragmatically determined aspects of what is said?
8.3 The sequencing problem and the maxim ‘Be orderly’
8.4 Understanding and relevance
8.6 The role of contextual assumptions
8.7 Reverse-causal interpretations
9 Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance
9.2 Pragmatic approaches to bridging
9.2.1.1 Accessibility of linguistic antecedents
9.2.1.2 Accessibility of bridging assumptions
9.2.2.1 Truth-based approaches
9.2.2.2 Coherence-based approaches
9.2.2.3 Relevance-based approaches
9.3 Relevance theory and bridging
9.4 Comparing coherence theory and relevance theory
10 Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences
10.1 Distinguishing mood and force
10.2 Characterising imperative mood
10.3 Explaining non-literal, non-serious cases
10.4 Characterising interrogative mood
11 Metarepresentation in linguistic communication
11.2 Gricean pragmatics and mindreading
11.3 Relevance theory and communication
11.4 Relevance theory and linguistic metarepresentation
11.4.1 Resemblance in linguistic metarepresentation
11.4.2 Decoding and inference in linguistic metarepresentation
11.4.3 Reporting and echoing
11.4.4 Non-attributive cases
Part III: Cross-Disciplinary Themes
12 Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading
12.2 Two approaches to communication
12.3 Two approaches to inferential communication
12.4 Relevance, cognition and communication
12.5 Relevance and pragmatics
13 Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance
13.2 The basic tenets of relevance theory
13.3 Testing the cognitive principle of relevance with relational reasoning tasks
13.4 Testing the communicative principle of relevance with the Wason Selection Task
13.5 Testing the communicative principle of relevance with a speech production task
14 The why and how of experimental pragmatics: the case of ‘scalar inferences’
14.1 Methodological background: the limits of pragmatic intuitions as evidence
14.2 Theoretical background: scalar implicatures as Generalised Conversational Implicatures (GCIs)
14.3 Relevance theory’s approach
14.4 Methodological considerations in experimental approaches to ‘scalar inferences’
14.5 Developmental studies
14.6 Time course of comprehension among adults
15 A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language
15.2 Two models of communication
15.3 The evolution of language and the two models of linguistic communication
1 INTRODUCTION: PRAGMATICS
3 TRUTHFULNESS AND RELEVANCE
5 A DEFLATIONARY ACCOUNT OF METAPHORS
7 LINGUISTIC FORM AND RELEVANCE
9 RECENT APPROACHES TO BRIDGING: TRUTH, COHERENCE, RELEVANCE
10 MOOD AND THE ANALYSIS OF NON-DECLARATIVE SENTENCES
11 METAREPRESENTATION IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION
13 TESTING THE COGNITIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE PRINCIPLES OF RELEVANCE
14 THE WHY AND HOW OF EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS: THE CASE OF ‘SCALAR INFERENCES’
15 A PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE