{"product_id":"meaning-and-relevance-hardback-9780521766777","title":"Meaning and Relevance (Hardback) 9780521766777","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMeaning and Relevance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeirdre Wilson (Author), Dan Sperber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521766777, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages, 5 b\/w illus.  11 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Twenty-five years ago, Sperber and Wilson published Relevance, Communication and Cognition: this was a major breakthrough in pragmatics. Philosophers and cognitive scientists intrigued by the subtle mapping between concepts and words should delve right away into their new Meaning and Relevance.' Pierre Jacob, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: 1. Pragmatics\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Relevance and Meaning: 2. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon\u003cbr\u003e 3. Truthfulness and relevance\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rhetoric and relevance\u003cbr\u003e 5. A deflationary account of metaphors\u003cbr\u003e 6. Explaining irony\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Explicit and Implicit Communication: 7. Linguistic form and relevance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Pragmatics and time\u003cbr\u003e 9. Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences\u003cbr\u003e 11. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Cross-disciplinary Themes: 12. Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading\u003cbr\u003e 13. Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance\u003cbr\u003e 14. The why and how of experimental pragmatics\u003cbr\u003e 15. A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Semantics, discourse analysis, etc\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Semantics,%20discourse%20analysis,%20etc%20%5BCFG%5D%22\"\u003eCFG\u003c\/a\u003e], Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265037455640,"sku":"9780521766777","price":86.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521766777i.jpg?v=1692019045","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/meaning-and-relevance-hardback-9780521766777","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}