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 …

The roles of eloquent silence in each of the six functions of language in Roman Jakobson's
communicative model (1960) are considered. First, pause, being outside language, is …

Internet communication has evolved a lot since it first became popular in the early nineties of
the last century. Pragmatics has also evolved and has tried to come to terms with the non …

In this paper, we investigate memes about student issues. We consider the memes as
expressions of a new networked student public that contain discourses that may fall outside …

This research combines elements in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics,
using empirical data to contribute to our understanding of the processing of polite discourse …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to offer some guidelines for an explanation of politeness in the
framework of Relevance Theory. I will suggest that the notion of social adequacy is to be …

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 …

Robotics research often focuses on increasing robot capability. If end users do not perceive
these increases, however, user acceptance may not improve. In this work, we explore the …