Meaning and Relevance

By Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber. 2012

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Introduction: 1. Pragmatics Part I. Relevance and Meaning: 2. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon 3. Truthfulness and relevance 4. Rhetoric and relevance 5. A deflationary account of metaphors 6. Explaining irony Part II. Explicit and Implicit Communication: 7. Linguistic form and relevance 8. Pragmatics and time 9. Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance 10. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences 11. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication Part III. Cross-disciplinary Themes: 12. Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading 13. Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance 14. The why and how of experimental pragmatics 15. A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Deirdre Wilson
2. Robyn Carston
3. Elly Ifantidou
4. Dan Sperber
5. T. Wharton
6. Gerard Steen

Citations in the corpus

• Irony comprehension: A developmental perspective (2013, background): “Echoic use is a technical term in relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995: chapter 4, sections 7-10; Wilson, 2006; Wilson and Sperber, 2012).”