Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are
fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within
semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …

Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with
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Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research,
and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary …

In this paper, Sperber and Wilson's Relevance theory is analyzed as to its explanation of
how humorous interpretations are produced. The main foundation of this cognitive theory is …

This book is an application of relevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human
communication, to different types of humorous discourse (jokes, stand-up monologues …

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions,
conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises …

Context is one of those linguistic terms which is constantly used in all kinds of context but
never explained (Asher 1994: 731) In mundane everyday talk and in academic discourse …

I would also like to thank Gurdeep Mattu and Colleen Coalter at Continuum, and Vladimir
Žegarac, without whom this book would not exist. My main debt in writing this book is to …

According to relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995), information (a set of assumptions
in its terminology) is relevant if it satisfies two conditions; firstly, it should generate a …