This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of
pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming …

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 …

There has been some discussion about how far relevance theory can help in analysing the
interpretation of literary works. Starting from the assumption that literary works are not …

According to the multidimensional view of reading comprehension (RAND), reading
comprehension (RC) is influenced by three components‏: the reader, text, and task. A …

Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called'the prison house of language'-the
widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it comes to articulating the rich …

Pragmatics-the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people
say-is a core subject in English language, linguistics, and communication studies. This …

How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues
rather than explicit narration and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect …

Before Humanity takes up the question of the post-in the posthuman from the position of
ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us …

This article establishes the theoretical bases for a more direct and detailed exploration of
fictional minds in cognitive stylistics. This discipline usually analyzes narrative discourse in …

Cognitive Grammar analyses the semantics of linguistic features in relation to human
cognition; Free Indirect Style allows authors to represent their characters' cognition with …