This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the
comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order …

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 …

Several strands of research on metarepresentation have a bearing on the study of linguistic
communication. On the whole, there has been little interaction among them, and the …

It is widely accepted that there is a distinction to be made between the explicit content and
the implicit import of an utterance. There is much less agreement about the precise nature of …

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns
metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other …

Studies of linguistic politeness have traditionally assumed a Gricean norm-based approach
to communication. On this view, instances of the use of polite forms and/or strategies …

The paper aims to clarify the Relevance theoretic notion of procedural meaning (cf.
Blakemore 1987, Wilson & Sperber 1993) through the analysis of but and nevertheless. I …

This paper is concerned with the semantic analysis of some constructions which have been
described as" pseudo-imperatives"(for discussion see Bolinger 1977; Fraser 1969, 1971; …

This paper addresses the question of whether there can be a unitary account of expressive
meaning by considering the descriptive ineffability of expressives such as damn or bastard …