This edited volume is the first extensive exploration of the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory which stresses the importance of context and…

Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. This book enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics…

This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics…