- Preface
This textbook provides an introdcution to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which have raised problems for the relationship between semantics and pragmatics such as reference, presupposition, non-thruth-conditional meaning; and to the analysis of phenomena traditionally discussed in litarary theory, including metaphor, irony and other stylistic effects.

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