Relevance theory is a framework for the study of cognition, proposed primarily in order to
provide a psychologically realistic account of communication. This paper (1) presents …

Preface i set out, in this book, as I did in the research that preceded it, to find answers to
some pressing questions about the translation of Holocaust poetry. I wanted to know, first …

Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and
Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of …

Relationships between local language use and broader patterns of inequality have also
been addressed beyond the school context. One key site for this has been research in …

Authorship analysis of anonymous texts is one of the more frequently required tasks in a
forensic setting. Its main purpose is either to gain information on the author's linguistic and …

The article deals with the concept of interactive stylistics and sociostylistics as one of its
subdisciplines. The interactive stylistics is explained as a transdisciplinary field of …

Smith (1968) argues that poems may end with formal changes which produce an experience
of closure in the reader. I argue that formal changes do not directly cause an experience of …

This paper explores how young people, especially Ghanaian hiplife musicians manipulate
language through the usage of puns to convey messages without necessarily sounding …

Semantic gesture is considered one of Jan Mukařovský's key conceptual contributions to the
theory of (artistic) communication. It is also a contribution that is still commented on and …

This paper considers some of the ways in which ideas from pragmatic stylistics (based here
on relevance theory) can be applied in exploring aspects of the production and …