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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Relevance Theory: a cognitive model of communication |
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1.2 Cognitive goals and relevance |
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1.3 The mind's massive modularity |
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1.4 Cognitive effects and relevance |
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1.5 Ostension, cognitive environment, manifestness and the Communicative Principle of Relevance |
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1.7 How ostensive-inferential communication works in practice |
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1.8 Inference to the intended interpretation and context construction |
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Chapter 2 Explicatures: how far do interpreters go? |
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2.2 The explicit-implicit divide: the relevance-theoretic approach |
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2.3 The nature of explicatures |
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2.4 Problems with free enrichment |
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2.5 The enrichment fallacy? |
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2.6 Contextual cognitive fix instead of free enrichment |
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2.7 How contextual cognitive fix works |
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2.8 Shallower interpretations |
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2.9 Contextual cognitive fix and ad hoc concepts |
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Chapter 3 Within and beyond implicature |
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3.2 Implicature: a relevance-theoretic construal |
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3.3 Implications vs. implicatures |
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3.4 Underdeterminacy vs. indeterminacy |
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3.5 From strong to weak communication or the other way round? |
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3.6 Poetic effects: the case of aphorisms |
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3.7 Implicit communication: whose meaning is it? |
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3.8 From communication to parallel (though diverse) thinking |
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Chapter 4 Relevance and the miracle of communication |
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4.2 RT, contextualism and pragmaticism |
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4.3 The miracle of communication argument |
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4.4 Inferencing and modularity |
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4.5 Communication and mind-reading |
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4.6 The miracle worker: the relevance-theoretic comprehension module |
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4.7 Personal vs. subpersonal levels in pragmatics |
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4.8 Contextual cognitive fix: comprehension efficiency revisited |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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Index |
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