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- 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
- 1 Scientific Tractability and Relevance Theory
- 2 Language Processing, Relevance and Questions
- 3 Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency
- 4 Evidential Explicatures and Mismatch Resolution
- 5 Representation and Metarepresentation in Negation
- 6 Pronouns in Free Indirect Discourse
- 7 The Development of Pragmatic Abilities
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
6 - Pronouns in Free Indirect Discourse
A Relevance-Theoretic Account
from Part I - Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
- 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
- 1 Scientific Tractability and Relevance Theory
- 2 Language Processing, Relevance and Questions
- 3 Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency
- 4 Evidential Explicatures and Mismatch Resolution
- 5 Representation and Metarepresentation in Negation
- 6 Pronouns in Free Indirect Discourse
- 7 The Development of Pragmatic Abilities
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Anne Reboul makes a significant new contribution to relevance-theoretic discussions of the phenomenon of ‘free indirect discourse’, by developing a pragmatic account of the appropriate use and interpretation of pronouns in this special kind of discourse (which typically occurs in literary texts).She first reviews current semantic accounts of pronouns in this kind of discourse and finds that they have problems with certain non-transparent referential uses of pronouns and their presuppositions. Her alternative account, which employs the relevance-theoretic notion of pragmatic enrichment together with the account of singular concepts developed within Francois Recanati’s mental files framework, avoids the problems of the semantic accounts.
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- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation , pp. 93 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019