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When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Semantics --- Relevance (Philosophy) --- Inference --- Cognition --- Sémantique --- Pertinence (Logique) --- Inférence (Logique) --- Semantics. --- Relevance. --- Inference. --- Cognition. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Inférence (Logique) --- Relevance --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Psychology --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Inférence --- Théorie de la pertinence (linguistique) --- Inférence --- Théorie de la pertinence (linguistique)

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The present volume demonstrates the multifaceted potential of Relevance Theory, which, for more than two decades now, has been inspiring studies of the relationship between human communication and cognition. In the Mind and across Minds reflects the main strands of relevance-theoretic research, by expanding, evaluating and revising the researchers' ideas in a collection of papers by an international array of scholars. The papers explore various aspects of communication including such issues a...

Language and languages. --- Interpersonal communication. --- Cognition. --- Relevance. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Psychology --- Interpersonal relations

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Comment trouver le mot juste ? Telle est la question que se posent écrivains et chercheurs. Engagés conjointement dans la recherche du mot adéquat, ils se livrent chacun à une écriture critique, toujours partagée entre création et commentaire, œuvre et essai, justice et justesse. Mais le mot juste existe-t-il ? N’est-il pas plutôt à entendre comme un paradoxe qui admet et refuse dans le même temps toute parole ? Car parler ne suffit en effet peut-être jamais à dire ce que l’on voudrait dire. Loin de se limiter au seul problème lexical, s’interroger sur le mot juste devient ainsi l’occasion de redéfinir l’acte d’écrire sinon d’en tracer une histoire renouvelée. Nœud dialectique, le mot juste ne semble laisser place dans ses tentatives qu’à une langue négative qui ne trouve pas ses mots. D’impropriétés en impropriétés, chercher le mot juste revient en définitive à mettre un nom pour en finir sans pour autant hélas parvenir à sortir de la page noire, là où toute langue ne se dit qu’à demi-mot. Parce que, depuis son impuissance fondatrice qu’il entend conjurer, le mot juste ne cesse d’adresser cette interrogation peut-être insoluble : et si l’écriture était toujours l’écriture moins l’écriture ?

Vocabulary --- Terms and phrases --- French language --- Vocabulaire --- Terminologie --- Français (Langue) --- Usage --- Mots et locutions --- Français (Langue) --- Vocabulary. --- Terms and phrases. --- Usage. --- Terminology --- Names --- Sublanguage --- Allusions --- English language --- Word books --- Words, Stock of --- Diction --- Lexicology --- pertinence --- littérature française --- rhétorique --- logique --- communication écrite --- Rhetorique --- Littérature --- Communication ecrite --- Pertinence (philosophie) --- Congres --- 1945-.... --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès

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Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental processes.The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.

Literature --- Pragmatics --- Poetics. --- Criticism. --- Relevance. --- Poétique --- Critique --- Relevance --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Poétique --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Poetry --- Technique --- Evaluation

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This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Pragmatics. --- Relevance. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy