Relevance Theory

More than Understanding

Edited By: Agnieszka Piskorska

£49.99

This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.

The present volume covers a variety of topics which are at the centre of interest in pragmatic research: understanding and believing, reference, politeness, communication problems,…

The present volume covers a variety of topics which are at the centre of interest in pragmatic research: understanding and believing, reference, politeness, communication problems, stylistics, metaphor, and humour. Next to innovative theoretical proposals, there are interesting analyses and discussions.

Ewa Wałaszewska and Agnieszka Piskorska are Assistant Professors at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. They are also co-editors of a number of publications related to Relevance Theory. Ewa Wałaszewska’s principal interests lie within the fields of semantics and pragmatics, including Relevance Theory, its applications to the study of particular linguistic phenomena as well as its theoretical implications for the investigation of human communication and cognition. Agnieszka Piskorska’s interests have been invariably connected with a relevance-theoretic approach to text interpretation and its impact on the hearer, especially in humour and translation studies.

Thorstein Fretheim, Caroline Jagoe, Anna Muszyńska, Astrid Nome, Ewa Nowik-Dziewicka, Susana Olmos, Kirsti Sellevold, Agnieszka Solska, Piotr Szymczak, Christoph Unger, Anna Wiechecka, Deirdre Wilson, Francisco Yus