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Tables of Contents for Relevance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to Second Edition
vii
List of symbols
ix
Communication
1
64
The code model and the semiotic approach to communication
3
6
Decoding and inference in verbal comprehension
9
6
The mutual-knowledge hypothesis
15
6
Grice's approach to `meaning' and communication
21
3
Should the code model and the inferential model be amalgamated?
24
4
Problems of definition
28
3
Problems of explanation: Grice's theory of conversation
31
7
Cognitive environments and mutual manifestness
38
8
Relevance and ostension
46
4
Ostensive-inferential communication
50
4
The informative intention
54
6
The communicative intention
60
5
Inference
65
53
Non-demonstrative inference
65
6
Logical forms, propositional attitudes and factual assumptions
71
4
Strength of assumptions
75
8
Deductive rules and concepts
83
10
The deductive device
93
10
Some types of deduction
103
5
Contextual effects: the role of deduction in non-demonstrative inference
108
10
Relevance
118
54
Conditions for relevance
118
5
Degrees of relevance: effect and effort
123
9
Is the context given or chosen?
132
5
A choice of contexts
137
5
Relevance to an individual
142
9
The relevance of phenomena and stimuli
151
4
The principle of relevance
155
8
How relevance theory explains ostensive-inferential communication
163
9
Aspects of verbal communication
172
83
Language and communication
172
4
Verbal communication, explicatures and implicatures
176
7
The identification of propositional form
183
10
The identification of implicatures
193
9
Propositional form and style: presuppositional effects
202
15
Implicatures and style: poetic effects
217
7
Descriptive and interpretive dimensions of language use
224
7
Literalness and metaphor
231
6
Echoic utterances and irony
237
6
Speech acts
243
12
Postface
255
26
Notes to First Edition
281
12
Notes to Second Edition
293
2
Notes to Postface
295
4
Bibliography
299
22
Index
321