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 …

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 …

This paper considers how the notion of phatic communication can best be understood within
the framework of Relevance Theory. To a large extent, we are exploring a terminological …

This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of
the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as …

The aim of this paper is to explain the use of insults from a relevance-theoretic perspective.
To that end, our analysis takes into consideration four variables that, we believe, play a …

Might Interjections Encode Concepts? More Questions than Answers This paper reflects on
the conceptual nature of interjections. Although there are convincing reasons to claim that …

Bidang bahasa sangat dimungkinkan berpadu dengan bidang lain yang mungkin sekali
jauh tali-temalinya, tetapi sangat mungkin untuk dikembangkan secara sinergis …

This paper considers how ideas developed within relevance theory can be applied in
accounting for language change. It briefly surveys previous relevance-theoretic work on …

The current relevance-theoretic approach to interjections (Wharton 2000, 2001, 2003)
analyses these as procedural elements that contribute to the recovery of the higher-level …

Since the publication of Malinowski's (1923) work, much of the extant literature on phatic
utterances has considered them to be a very important linguistic device by means of which …