RT list: Meaning and Relevance out

*Meaning and Relevance* by Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber (Cambridge UP) is
out in Britain and will be out in the US at the end of April. Here is the
table of contents:

Preface

INTRODUCTION

1. Pragmatics

PART 1: RELEVANCE AND MEANING

2. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon

3. Truthfulness and relevance

4. Rhetoric and relevance

5. A deflationary account of metaphors

6. Explaining irony

PART 2: EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT COMMUNICATION

7. Linguistic form and relevance

8. Pragmatics and time

9. Recent approaches to bridging: Truth, coherence, relevance (Deirdre
Wilson and Tomoko Matsui)

10. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences

11. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication (Deirdre Wilson)

PART 3: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY THEMES

13. Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance
(Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Dan Sperber)

14. The why and how of experimental pragmatics (Ira Noveck and Dan Sperber)

15. A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language ( Dan Sperber and
Gloria Origgi)
Received on Fri Apr 6 17:59:58 2012