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  • 3 - Relevance Theory and the Broadening of Pragmatics to Explicit Meaning

  • from Part I - Theoretical Foundations
  • Sandrine Zufferey, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève, Anne Reboul
  • Book:
    Implicatures
    Published online:
    10 June 2019
    Print publication:
    13 June 2019, pp 45-66

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on relevance theory. It first introduces its main tenets, before giving a detailed presentation of the cognitive and the communicative principles of relevance. With this framework in mind, the chapter goes on to illustrate how relevance theory deals with different cases involving pragmatic enrichment. It also introduces the notion of explicature, parallel to that of implicature that was introduced in relevance theory. Finally, the chapter illustrates how some pragmatic phenomena that were previously treated as cases of implicature have been reclassified as explicatures in relevance theory.

  • Part I - Theoretical Foundations

  • Sandrine Zufferey, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève, Anne Reboul
  • Book:
    Implicatures
    Published online:
    10 June 2019
    Print publication:
    13 June 2019, pp 1-66

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the context in which Grice presented his theory of implicatures, with special reference to speech act theory. It goes on to present Grice’s main contribution to pragmatics, detailing his principle of cooperation and presenting an overview of the different types of implicatures that he defined. Finally, the chapter presents a number of criticisms that have been levelled at his theory.