In the Mind and Across Minds: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443821292)

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In the Mind and Across Minds: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation

$75.95

In the Mind and Across Minds: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation

$75.95
Format: Hardcover
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The present volume demonstrates the multifaceted potential of Relevance Theory, which, for more than two decades now, has been inspiring studies of the relationship between human communication and cognition. In the Mind and across Minds reflects the main strands of relevance-theoretic research, by expanding, evaluating and revising the researchers' ideas in a collection of papers by an international array of scholars. The papers explore various aspects of communication including such issues as non-literal meaning with the focus on irony and metaphor, the construction of ad hoc concepts, the conceptual-procedural meaning distinction, metarepresentation, context and politeness as well as test the applicability of Relevance Theory to the domain of translation. A set of readings on varied linguistic and sociocultural phenomena, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students investigating meaning in natural language and an insightful reference for those interested in relevance-theoretic pragmatics, or pragmatics in general, semantics, sociolinguistics and Translation Studies. Ewa Walaszewska, Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk and Agnieszka Piskorska work at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw as Assistant Professors. They pursue their individual research connected with Relevance Theory and jointly organise a biennial conference Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation.

Author: Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk
ISBN-10: 1443821292
ISBN-13: 9781443821292
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2010
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk
By Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk
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Ewa Walaszewska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her principal interests lie within the fields of semantics and pragmatics, including Relevance Theory, its applications to the study of particular linguistic phenomena as well as its theoretical implications for the investigation of human communication and cognition. She is a co-editor of Relevant Worlds: Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research interests and publications focus on cognitive pragmatics, including the relevance-theoretic and competing approaches to modality, the explicit/implicit distinction in communication, and phenomena from the pragmatics/sociolinguistics interface. She is a co-editor of Relevant Worlds: Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Agnieszka Piskorska holds a PhD in Linguistics and is employed at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw as Assistant Professor. Her interests include Relevance Theory and Translation Studies.

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