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List of figures and tables |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Typographical conventions |
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1.2 Expectations and meanings: a short summary |
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1.3 Sentences, utterances and propositions |
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1.4 Communication and cognition: a fuller overview |
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12 | (29) |
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41 | (1) |
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2 Origins and alternatives: Grice, relevance theory and modern pragmatics |
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2.3 Grice and pragmatics: a `theory of conversation' |
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47 | (16) |
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2.4 Problems and possibilities: critiques of Grice |
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63 | (14) |
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2.5 The development of relevance theory |
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77 | (6) |
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2.6 Other directions: `post-Griceans' and `neo-Griceans' |
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83 | (6) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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3 Principles of Relevance |
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90 | (33) |
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3.2 Relevance, cognition and communication |
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91 | (8) |
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3.3 Defining relevance: effects |
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99 | (5) |
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3.4 Defining relevance: effort |
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104 | (2) |
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3.5 Maximising relevance: the Cognitive Principle of Relevance |
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106 | (2) |
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3.6 Optimising relevance: the Communicative Principle of Relevance |
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108 | (4) |
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3.7 Ostensive-inferential communication |
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112 | (7) |
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3.8 A comprehension heuristic |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (34) |
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4.2 Pragmatic processes: what we need to explain |
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124 | (1) |
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4.3 Varieties of inference |
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125 | (17) |
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4.4 Explaining inferences: principles, presumptions and mutual adjustment |
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142 | (13) |
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Part II Details and developments |
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157 | (206) |
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5 Explicature and implicature |
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159 | (41) |
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159 | (1) |
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5.2 Saying and implicating |
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159 | (8) |
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5.3 The pragmatics of saying |
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167 | (4) |
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5.4 Explicature and implicature |
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171 | (21) |
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5.5 Alternative approaches |
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192 | (7) |
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199 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (16) |
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6.2 Utterances and propositions |
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200 | (7) |
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6.3 Words, concepts and the world |
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207 | (1) |
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6.4 Higher-level explicatures |
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208 | (3) |
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6.5 Strength of explicatures |
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211 | (4) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (24) |
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216 | (1) |
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7.2 Implications and implicatures |
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217 | (7) |
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7.3 Implicated premises and implicated conclusions |
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224 | (4) |
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7.4 Deriving implicatures |
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228 | (7) |
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7.5 Strength of implicatures |
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235 | (3) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (13) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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8.4 Inferring concepts: broadening and narrowing |
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244 | (5) |
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249 | (3) |
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252 | (1) |
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9 Figurative language: metaphor |
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253 | (27) |
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9.2 Literal and non-literal language |
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254 | (4) |
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9.3 Descriptive and interpretive representations |
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258 | (5) |
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9.4 Grice's account of metaphor |
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263 | (3) |
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9.5 Metaphor and weak implicatures |
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266 | (6) |
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9.6 Metaphor and ad hoc concepts |
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272 | (7) |
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279 | (1) |
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10 Figurative language: irony |
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280 | (15) |
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280 | (1) |
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280 | (3) |
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10.3 Grice's `traditional' approach |
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283 | (3) |
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286 | (6) |
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10.5 Data from other sources |
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292 | (2) |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (33) |
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295 | (1) |
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11.2 Semantics and pragmatics |
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296 | (5) |
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11.3 Representation, translation and interpretation |
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301 | (4) |
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11.4 From words to the world: two kinds of semantics |
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305 | (3) |
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11.5 Concepts and procedures: two kinds of meanings |
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308 | (19) |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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12 Conclusion: applications and recent developments |
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328 | (35) |
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328 | (1) |
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12.2 Developing the theory |
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328 | (3) |
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12.3 Testing pragmatic theories: kinds of data |
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331 | (9) |
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12.4 Linguistic and pragmatic development, translation and evolution |
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340 | (5) |
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12.5 Pragmatics and the mind |
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345 | (6) |
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351 | (5) |
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12.7 Competitors and challenges: other views |
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356 | (4) |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
Appendix: Key notions of relevance theory |
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363 | (4) |
Notes to chapters |
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367 | (5) |
Bibliography and other resources |
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Index |
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