Sperber and Wilson's 'Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences'
(Multilingua 16, 1997) contains some useful discussion of this kind of
point. It's available here:
http://www.dan.sperber.com/rel-soc.htm
Bob Borsley
Prof. Robert D. Borsley
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ, UK
rborsley@essex.ac.uk
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Recently published:
Robert D. Borsley & Bob Morris Jones, Welsh Negation and Grammatical
Theory, University of Wales Press, ISBN: 0-7083-1883-5.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Stefan Malmberg wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In her new book Pragmatic Stylistics, (Edinburgh University Press 2006) Elizabeth Black, a former teacher of mine, writes of RT
> that "it does not consider the sociocultural context in which all language use is negotiated" (P.115). She illustrates this with
> reference to metaphor and irony, Bakhtin and Labov. I have always been under the impression that RT is a comprehensive theory and perhaps some discussion of the terminology it uses, such as the encyclopedia, is required. Does anyone have any views on this?
>
>
> Best wishes from Stefan
>
>
> Stefan Malmberg
> Måsvägen 3A1
> 22100 Mariehamn
> Åland
> Finland
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