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In the Mind and across Minds

A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation

Edited By: Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk, Ewa Wałaszewska

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This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.

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…

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 Wałaszewska, 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.

Ewa Wałaszewska 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.

Keiko Abe, Keiko Abe, Aoife Ahern, Regina Blass, Kaja Borthen, Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Heidi Bröseth, Thorstein Fretheim, Ernst-August Gutt, Maria Jodłowiec, Koji Mineshima, Yuji Nishiyama, Susana Olmos, Mihaela Popa, Daniel Sax, Kirsti Sellevold, Agnieszka Solska, Agnieszka Solska, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk

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ISBN: 1-4438-2129-2
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2129-2
Date of Publication: 2010-07-12

Ebook

ISBN: 1-4438-2192-6
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2192-6
Date of Publication: 2010-07-12

Category: Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics, Language and Linguistics

Pages: 360

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BIC: CF, CFG, CFP
BISAC: LAN009030, LAN023000, LAN016000, PSY008000, PSY031000, PSY030000
THEMA: CF, CFG, CFP

Pages: 360

“In the Mind and Across Minds: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation, a new volume of Interpreting for Relevance Conference related series, deserves publication for at least three reasons.
- (1) It presents a wide array of very up-to-date relevance-theoretic papers originating in a variety of academic circles world-wide and prepared by researchers of different levels of academic career advancement, which gives a representative survey of the state-of-the-art in relevance-theoretic research. (2) It covers a broad range of topics undertaken (mental versus occasion-specific concepts, conceptual versus procedural meaning, context construction, the role of metarepresentation ability, irony, relevance-theoretic view on translation, contrastive relevance-theoretic pragmatic analyses) and problems tackled, which provides useful guidelines to the current focus of relevance-theoretic studies.

In the Mind and across Minds

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