LEADER 04007nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910954200503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612163173 010 $a9781282163171 010 $a1282163175 010 $a9789027298973 010 $a9027298971 024 7 $a10.1075/pbns.76 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520697 035 $a(OCoLC)70764683 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5000250 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215148 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240901 035 $a(PQKB)10025359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622281 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL622281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5000250 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL216317 035 $a(DE-B1597)720264 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027298973 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520697 100 $a20020718d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBridging and relevance /$fTomoko Matsui 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$a[Great Britain] $cJ. Benjamins Pub$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aPragmatics & beyond. New series,$x0922-842x ;$v76 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781556199240 311 08$a1556199244 311 08$a9789027250926 311 08$a9027250928 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBRIDGING AND RELEVANCE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Relevance Theory -- Chapter 3. Bridging reference assignment and accessibility of discourse entities -- Chapter 4. Accessibility of bridging assumptions and other contextual assumptions -- Chapter 5. Acceptability Judgements for Bridging Reference -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES. 330 $aWhile it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of bridging. The book demonstrates that when encountering a referring expression, the hearer is able to choose a set of contextual assumptions intended by the speaker in a principled way, out of all the assumptions possibly available to him. It claims more specifically that the use of context, as well as the assignment of referent, is governed by a single pragmatic principle, namely, the principle of relevance (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995), which is also a single principle governing overall utterance interpretation. The explanatory power of the criterion based on the principle of relevance is tested against the two major, current alternatives - truth-based criteria and coherence-based criteria - using data elicited in a battery of referent assignment questionnaires. The results show clearly that the relevance-based criterion has more predictive power to handle a wider range of examples than any other existing criterion. As such, this work adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the insights of relevance theory.The work has been awarded the 2001 Ichikawa Award for the best achievement in English Linguistics by a young scholar in Japan. 410 0$aPragmatics & beyond ;$vnew ser. 76. 606 $aReference (Linguistics) 606 $aRelevance 606 $aPragmatics 615 0$aReference (Linguistics) 615 0$aRelevance. 615 0$aPragmatics. 676 $a401.41 686 $aET 760$2rvk 700 $aMatsui$b Tomoko$01800605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954200503321 996 $aBridging and relevance$94345458 997 $aUNINA