There was a post to the relevance list on Oct 1 2001 by I. MacKenzie, where
the utterer inter alia utterered parenthetically:
>(Pages of Gricean ramblings not required.)
-- which does sound okay. While some may even confess to something like a
_love_ for "not required" "pages of Gricean ramblings", I am a good'un &
value general _relevance_ issues. So, here is a note from the LINGUIST list
on a book by the aforementioned author.
Best,
JL
Grice Club, &c.
=== begin forwarded post:
Date: 29 May 2002
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From: LINGUIST List <linguist@linguistlist.org>
Subject: 13.1542, Books: Linguistic Theories: Paradigms of Reading
To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
LINGUIST List: Vol-13-1542. May 29 2002. ISSN 1068-4875.
Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/
Paradigms of Reading:
Relevance Theory & Deconstruction
by Ian MacKenzie
Linguistic signs do not coincide with intended or interpreted
meanings.
For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely
demonstrates the inferential nature of language.
For Paul de Man, on the contrary, it suggested that language is unstable,
random, arbitrary, mechanical, ironic and inhuman.
This lively and bold new book explores relevance theory with plenty of
illustrated examples to
show that it is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and
literary interpretation than the deconstructionist theory de Man elaborated
from readings of Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche.
Its provocative and groundbreaking approach will force the reader to
question the value for deconstructionist theory for interpreting literary
texts in favour of a pragmatic theory from Linguistics.
* * * * * * *
Contents:
1. Pragmatic Banality & Honourable Bigotry
2. Relevance Theory & Spoken Communication
3. 'Positive Hermeneutics': Relevance & Communication
4. 'Negative Hermeneutics': Themes, Figures, Codes & Cognition
5. Rhetoric, Blindness, Allegory, Ideology, Resistance
6. Words, Concepts & Tropes
7. Rhetoric as an Insurmountable Obstacle
8. Words & the World: The Problem of Reference
9. Mechanical Performatives
10. The Madness of Words & the Enunciating Subject
11. 'When Lucy ceas'd to be'
12. Conclusion: Rhetoric & Relevance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
The author is an English language teacher, teacher trainer and
coursebook writer and the author of numerous articles on linguistics
and literary theory. He teaches at the Haute Ecole de Gestion,
Lausanne.
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=== end of forwarded post.
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