Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Meaning and truth -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Meaning, truth and grammar -- 1.3 Pragmatic competence -- 1.4 Semantic retreat? -- 2 Non-truth conditional meaning -- 2.1 Varieties of non-truth conditional meaning -- 2.2 Speech act theoretic approaches: indicating and describing -- 2.3 Conventional implicature -- 2.4 Is conventional implicature a myth? -- 3 Relevance and meaning -- 3.1 Relevance and the semantics/pragmatics distinction -- 3.2 Implicit and explicit verbal communication -- 3.3 Conceptual and procedural encoding -- 4 Procedural meaning -- 4.1 Constraints on relevance: new questions -- 4.2 A procedural analysis of but -- 4.2.1 but and contrast -- 4.2.2 but and concessivity -- 4.2.3 but and manifestness -- 4.3 However and nevertheless -- 4.3.1 The but, however, nevertheless hierarchy -- 4.3.2 however -- 4.3.3 nevertheless -- 4.4 Well -- 4.4.1 The elusiveness of well -- 4.4.2 well = 'all is not well' -- 4.4.3 well = 'all is well' -- 4.4.4 well and optimal relevance -- 5 Relevance and discourse -- 5.1 The location of discourse on the theoretical map -- 5.2 Discourse connections -- 5.2.1 Approaches to discourse coherence -- 5.2.2 Cohesion, coherence and discourse acceptability -- 5.3 Understanding without discourse relations -- 5.3.1 Coherence and understanding -- 5.3.2 Coherence and relevance -- 5.3.3 Temporal relations -- 5.3.4 Restatement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General index -- Name index.