Relevance Theory : Recent developments, current challenges and future directions

How Hearers Arrive At Intended Meaning, Which Elements Encode Processing Instructions In Certain Languages, How Procedural Meaning And Prosody Interact, How Diverse Types Of Utterances Are Interpreted, How Epistemic Vigilance Mechanisms Work, Which Linguistic Elements Assist Those Mechanisms, How A Critical Attitude To Information And Informers Develops When A Second Language Is Learnt, Or Why Some Perlocutionary Effects Originate Are Some Of The Varied Issues That Have Intrigued Pragmatists, And Relevance Theorists In Particular, And Continue To Fuel Research. In This Collection Readers Will Discover New Proposals Based On The Cognitive Framework Put Forward By Dan Sperber And Deirdre Wilson Three Decades Ago. Their Gripping, Insightful And Stimulating Discussions, Combined In Some Cases With Meticulous And In-depth Analyses, Show The Directions Relevance Theory Has Recently Followed. Moreover, This Collection Also Unveils Fruitful And Promising Interactions With Areas Like Morphology, Prosody, Language Typology, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Machine Translation, Or Rhetoric And Argumentation, And Avenues For Future Research. Introduction : Three Decades Of Relevance Theory / Manuel Padilla Cruz -- Issues On Procedural Meaning And Procedural Analyses -- The Speaker's Derivational Intention / Thorstein Fretheim -- Cracking The Chestnut : How Intonation Interacts With Procedural Meaning In Colloquial Singapore English Lah / Junwen Lee And Chonghyuck Kim -- Reference Assignment In Pronominal Argument Languages : A Relevance-theoretic Perspective / Helga Schroder -- Conceptual And Procedural Information For Verb Tense Disambiguation : The English Simple Past / Cristina Grisot, Bruno Cartoni And Jacques Moeschler -- Discourse Issues -- Relevance Theory And Contextual Sources-centred Analysis Of Irony : Current Research And Compatibility / Francisco Yus -- Distinguishing Rhetorical From Ironical Questions : A Relevance-theoretic Account / Thierry Raeber -- Interpretive Processes -- Relevance Theory, Epistemic Vigilance And Pragmatic Competence / Elly Ifantidou -- Evidential, Genre And Epistemic Vigilance / Christoph Unger -- Rhetorical And Perlocutionary Effects Of Communication -- Rhetoric And Cognition : Pragmatic Constraints On Argument Processing / Steve Oswald -- Perlocutionary Effects And Relevance Theory / Agnieszka Piskorska -- Conclusion : Some Directions For Future Research In Relevance-theoretic Pragmatics / Manuel Padilla Cruz -- Contributors -- Index. Edited By Manuel Padilla Cruz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.