Book contents
- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- 15 Metaphor and Metonymy in Acquisition
- 16 Relevance and Metaphor Understanding in a Second Language
- 17 Component Processes of Irony Comprehension in Children
- 18 Allegory in Relation to Metaphor and Irony
- 19 Slave of the Passions
- 20 Adaptations as Communicative Acts
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
20 - Adaptations as Communicative Acts
A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective
from Part III - Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
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Book contents
- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- 15 Metaphor and Metonymy in Acquisition
- 16 Relevance and Metaphor Understanding in a Second Language
- 17 Component Processes of Irony Comprehension in Children
- 18 Allegory in Relation to Metaphor and Irony
- 19 Slave of the Passions
- 20 Adaptations as Communicative Acts
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
In this chapter, Anne Furlong demonstrates a new application of relevance theory through a discussion of how relevance is achieved when adapting a ‘literary’ work from one communicative medium into another (e.g. from written text into film). She argues that adaptations should be understood as communicative acts in their own right, so as falling under the presumption of optimal relevance like any other ostensive act, and suggests that assumptions about the source texts can form part of the context in which that new communicative act is interpreted.
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- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation , pp. 267 - 278Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019