creators_name: Wilson, Deirdre creators_name: Sperber, Dan editors_name: Ward, G. editors_name: Horn, L. type: bookchapter datestamp: 2002-07-13 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:57 metadata_visibility: show title: Relevance Theory ispublished: unpub subjects: phil-lang full_text_status: public keywords: pragmatics, relevance theory abstract: General overview of relevance theory date: 2002 date_type: published publication: Handbook of Pragmatics publisher: Blackwell refereed: FALSE referencetext: Asher, Nicholas & Lascarides, Alex. 2001. The semantics and pragmatics of metaphor. In P. Bouillon & F. Busa (eds) The Language of Word Meaning: 262-289. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Bach, Kent. 1994a. Conversational impliciture. Mind and Language 9: 124-62. Bach, Kent. 1994b. Semantic slack: What is said and more. In S. Tsohatzidis (ed.) Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives: 267-91. Routledge, London. Bach, Kent. 1997. 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