Billy Clark

Relevance Theory (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two parts - the first providing an overview of the essential machinery of the theory, and the second exploring how the original theory has been extended, applied and critically discussed. Clark offers a systematic framework for understanding the theory from the basics up, building a complete picture and providing the basis for advanced research across a range of topics. With this book, students will understand the fundamentals of relevance theory, its origins in the work of Grice, the relationship it has to other approaches, and its place within recent developments and debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107240995
• Artikelnr.: 52917405

Autorenporträt

Billy Clark is the Founder of Billy Clark Creative Management (BCCM). Prior to BCCM, he spent eleven years building the recruiting firm Jack Kelly & Partners after starting his career in investor relations at Taylor Rafferty. A graduate of Boston College, where he majored in Marketing at the Carroll School of Management and received a minor in French from the School of Arts & Sciences, he divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Overview: 1. A first outline
2. Origins and alternatives: Grice, relevance theory and modern pragmatics
3. Principles of relevance
4. Explaining inferences
Part II. Details and Developments: 5. Explicature and implicature
6. Types of explicature
7. Types of implicature
8. Lexical pragmatics
9. Figurative language: metaphor
10. Figurative language: irony
11. Linguistic semantics
12. Conclusion: applications and recent developments
Appendix: key notions of relevance theory.