Facework and Utilitarian Relevance in the Disambiguation of Statements With Two Indirect Interpretations

Demeure, Virginie

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“…Relevance theory has inspired work in relation to a range of different topics, some of which include: bridging (Matsui 1992;Wilson and Matsui 1998;Matsui 2000;Wilson and Matsui 2012) and bridging anaphora (Wu 2013); modularity and the architecture of the mind (Carston 1988b(Carston , 1989(Carston , 1996a(Carston , 1997(Carston , 2002cSperber 1994;Sperber and Wilson 2002;Carston 2006;Capone 2011); speech acts (Sperber and Wilson 1995;Reboul 2001;Ireri et al 2015); disambiguation (Sperber and Wilson 1995, pp. 183-193;Demeure 2010); politeness/impoliteness (Escandell Vidal 1996aCulpeper 2005;Chen 2014); translation (Gutt 1989(Gutt , 1991(Gutt , 2010Díaz-Pérez 2014); pseudo-imperatives (Clark 1989(Clark , 1993; music (Downes 1994;Acotto and Radicioni 2012); humour (Yus 2008a(Yus , 2012Dynel 2012;Yus 2016); and irony (Wilson and Sperber 1992;Sperber and Wilson 1998b;Giora 1998;Wilson 2006;Zhao 2009a, b;Wilson and Sperber 2012a). Relevance theory also has helped to shape the field of experimental p...…”

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Poetic effects and visuospatial form: A relevance-theoretic perspective

Pinder¹

2021

Journal of Pragmatics

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Sperber and Wilson (1995:222) posit the term poetic effect for the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. Crucially, the input to pragmatic processing, which prompts the derivation of a poetic effect, is achieved via some stylistically pronounced linguistic feature: for example, a repeated lexical item, a peculiar syntactic form, a piece of alliteration, and so on. However, what has never been considered to any great depth from a relevancetheoretic perspective is how unusual elements of visuospatial form might also impact upon the reader's basic understanding and wider interpretation of a given poetic text in ways that result in the derivation of specialised poetic effects. Therefore, the thesis posits a relevance-theoretic account of the cognitive-pragmatic effects of short linelength and line divisions, when employed and interpreted within complex forms of poetry.The account is split into two hypotheses relating to short line-length and line divisions respectively. Hypothesis 1 states that the use of short line-length leads to the majority of the text's lexical material being perceived in a much slower, and therefore intense fashion, which consequently causes the lexical and encyclopaedic entries that such material links to within the mind to remain active for relatively longer periods of time. During such extended periods of lexical and encyclopaedic activation, literary readers are encouraged to inferentially process the text's explicit-propositional content in relation to a range of further items of encyclopaedic-contextual material, which can give rise to arrays of additional contextual effects of a weakly implicit and therefore poetic nature.Hypothesis 2 states that line divisions are often intentionally utilised in poetic texts by writers in order to visuospatially separate integral syntactic units upon the page. This can encourage readers to pause and briefly consider, upon an anticipatoryhypothetical basis, the various possible pragmatic extensions of the text's momentarily incomplete logical and propositional status, pre-line division as it were. The various pragmatic extensions may be formulated as arrays of weak explicatures, which for some readers may achieve poetic effects (in the specialised relevance-theoretic sense of the term). The process effectively constitutes the visuospatial equivalent of a deliberate 'pause for effect', which triggers a considerable degree of further inferential processing, and provides a distinct communicational 'reward' primarily at an explicit-propositional level.

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Poetic effects and visuospatial form: A relevance-theoretic perspective

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“…Relevance theory has inspired work in relation to a range of different topics, some of which include: bridging (Matsui 1992;Wilson and Matsui 1998;Matsui 51 2000; Wilson and Matsui 2012) and bridging anaphora (Wu 2013); modularity and the architecture of the mind (Carston 1988b(Carston , 1989(Carston , 1996a(Carston , 1997(Carston , 2002cSperber 1994;Sperber and Wilson 2002;Carston 2006;Capone 2011); speech acts (Sperber and Wilson 1995;Reboul 2001;Ireri et al 2015); disambiguation (Sperber and Wilson 1995, pp. 183-193;Demeure 2010); politeness/impoliteness (Escandell Vidal 1996aCulpeper 2005;Chen 2014); translation (Gutt 1989(Gutt , 1991(Gutt , 2010; Díaz-Pérez 2014); pseudo-imperatives (Clark 1989(Clark , 1993; music (Downes 1994;Acotto and Radicioni 2012); humour (Yus 2008a(Yus , 2012Dynel 2012;Yus 2016); and irony (Wilson and Sperber 1992;Sperber and Wilson 1998b;Giora 1998;Wilson 2006;Zhao 2009a, b;Wilson and Sperber 2012a). Relevance theory also has helped to shape the field of experimental pragmatics (Jo...…”

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Poetic effects and visuospatial form: a relevance-theoretic perspective

Pinder¹

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Sperber and Wilson (1995:222) posit the term poetic effect for the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. Crucially, the input to pragmatic processing, which prompts the derivation of a poetic effect, is achieved via some stylistically pronounced linguistic feature: for example, a repeated lexical item, a peculiar syntactic form, a piece of alliteration, and so on. However, what has never been considered to any great depth from a relevancetheoretic perspective is how unusual elements of visuospatial form might also impact upon the reader’s basic understanding and wider interpretation of a given poetic text in ways that result in the derivation of specialised poetic effects. Therefore, the thesis posits a relevance-theoretic account of the cognitive-pragmatic effects of short linelength and line divisions, when employed and interpreted within complex forms of poetry. The account is split into two hypotheses relating to short line-length and line divisions respectively. Hypothesis 1 states that the use of short line-length leads to the majority of the text’s lexical material being perceived in a much slower, and therefore intense fashion, which consequently causes the lexical and encyclopaedic entries that such material links to within the mind to remain active for relatively longer periods of time. During such extended periods of lexical and encyclopaedic activation, literary readers are encouraged to inferentially process the text’s explicit-propositional content in relation to a range of further items of encyclopaedic-contextual material, which can give rise to arrays of additional contextual effects of a weakly implicit and therefore poetic nature. Hypothesis 2 states that line divisions are often intentionally utilised in poetic texts by writers in order to visuospatially separate integral syntactic units upon the page. This can encourage readers to pause and briefly consider, upon an anticipatoryhypothetical basis, the various possible pragmatic extensions of the text’s momentarily incomplete logical and propositional status, pre-line division as it were. The various pragmatic extensions may be formulated as arrays of weak explicatures, which for some readers may achieve poetic effects (in the specialised relevance-theoretic sense of the term). The process effectively constitutes the visuospatial equivalent of a deliberate ‘pause for effect’, which triggers a considerable degree of further inferential processing, and provides a distinct communicational ‘reward’ primarily at an explicit-propositional level.

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“He shouldn't have put it that way!” How face threats and mitigation strategies affect person perception in online tutoring

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2015

Communication Education

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Facework and Utilitarian Relevance in the Disambiguation of Statements With Two Indirect Interpretations

Cited by 5 publications

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Poetic effects and visuospatial form: A relevance-theoretic perspective

Poetic effects and visuospatial form: A relevance-theoretic perspective

Poetic effects and visuospatial form: a relevance-theoretic perspective

“He shouldn't have put it that way!” How face threats and mitigation strategies affect person perception in online tutoring

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