In this new and important study of the analysis of discourse markers, Diane Blakemore argues that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse ma

The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark int

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.