A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts.

By Deirdre Wilson, Robyn Carston. 2007

420 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Elly Ifantidou
2. Deirdre Wilson
3. Robyn Carston
4. Michael Haugh
5. Gerard Steen
6. T. Wharton
7. Dan Sperber
8. Ira A. Noveck

In Language and Linguistics

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

In Philosophy

1. Deirdre Wilson
2. Elly Ifantidou
3. Robyn Carston
4. Michael Haugh
5. Ira A. Noveck
6. Elisabeth Camp
7. D. Blakemore

Citations in the corpus

• Irony comprehension: A developmental perspective (2013, background): “For instance, relevance theorists treat hyperbole is a type of loose use of language closely related to metaphor (Wilson and Carston, 2007; Sperber and Wilson, 2008), which does not involve the expression of a characteristic attitude or tone of voice, and combines as easily with nonechoic forms of…”
• Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics (2011, background): “The broadening can be almost imperceptible, as in the following cases of approximation: 3 For recent relevance-theoretic treatments of metaphor, see e.g. Carston (2002), Higashimori (2002), Wilson and Sperber (2002), Vega Moreno (2007), Wilson and Carston (2007, 2008), Sperber and Wilson (2008).”
• The heterogeneity of procedural meaning (2016, background): “As discussed in relevance-theoretic work on 115 ‘lexical pragmatics’, this involves an interaction among the lexically encoded concept, 116 other concepts encoded by the utterance and contextual information, constrained by 117 the hearer’s expectation of relevance (Wilson & Carston 2007).”
• Newspaper headlines and relevance: Ad hoc concepts in ad hoc contexts (2009, methodology): “…law’ may be used to metaphorically convey the writer’s criticism of the INFLEXIBLE*, outdated policy proposed by the current government—which is a radical development of the encoded meaning of the word ‘ANIMAL/PLANT FOSSILS’ (for more varieties of broadening, see Wilson and Carston, 2007).”