CURRENT ISSUES IN RELEVANCE THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- Connectives, Coherence and Relevance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse connectives as cohesive devices -- 3. Discourse connectives as indicators of coherencerelations -- 3.1. Coherence relations and "linking" -- 3.2. Coherence relations and interpretation -- 3.3. Coherence relations and the meaning of discourse connectives -- 4. Relevance theory and connectives -- 4.1. Semantic varieties of connectives -- 4.2. Linking concepts and constraints on relevance -- 4.3. Some counterexamples? -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Because and although: A Case of Duality? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. König's account of causal and concessive connectives -- 2.1. Duality -- 2.2. König 's problems -- 3. Problems with the duality account of concessives andcausal adverbials -- 3.1. The scope of the negation -- 3.2. Because and although -- 4. The cognitive perspective -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Conceptual and Procedural Encoding: Cause-consequence Conjunctive Particles in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 2.1. Nagano's theory and the surrounding debate -- 2.2. A common problem -- 3. Semantics of kara / node -- 3.1. Explicit encoding6 -- 3.2. Truth-conditional or non-truth-conditional? -- 4. Differences between kara and node -- 4.1. What is asserted? -- 4.2. Kara and node as procedural -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Interface Economy and Focus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The effect of focus on interpretation -- 3. Ostensive-inferential communication and proceduralmeaning -- 3.1. Utterance interpretation and inference -- 3.2. Procedural Meaning.

4. Focus interpretation: A presuppositional approach andprocedural approach -- 4.1. Alternative semantics for focus and interface constraints on context -- 4.2. Focus determines alternative representations -- 4.3. Misplaced focus and acceptability judgements -- 5. How focus determines alternative representations -- 5.1. Processing utterances on-line -- 5.2. Focus encodes interface processing information -- 6. Acceptable use of accessibility indicators -- 7. Reinhart's Interface Strategy approach -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- A Relevance-theoretic Account of the PropertyPredication Restriction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The property predication restriction -- 2.1. Some basic distinctions -- 2.2. A constraint on weak indefinites -- 3. Against a syntactic account of the constraint -- 3.1. The status of the IL/SL distinction -- 3.2. The status of the weak/strong distinction -- 3.3. The context-dependent nature of the constraint -- 4. A relevance-theoretic account -- 4.1. Setting the bases for a pragmatic account of the PPR -- 4.2. Processing effort and context recoverability -- 5. Some consequences -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Intonation and Procedural Encoding:The Case of Spanish Interrogatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interrogatives and intonation in Spanish -- 2.1. The classical view -- 2.1.1. The falling-rising contour -- 2.1.2. The rising-falling contour -- 2.1.3. The rising contour -- 2.2. Problems with this approach -- 3. Relevance and linguistic encoding: conceptual andprocedural expressions -- 4. Intonation and procedural restrictions on higher-levelexplicatures -- 4.1. The falling-rising contour: Neutral interrogatives -- 4.1.1. Compatible interpretations -- 4.1.2. The falling-rising pattern as an obligatory marker -- 4.2. The rising-falling contour: Attribution to other.

4.2.1. Repetitive interrogatives -- 4.2.2. Attributed statements -- 4.2.3. Attributed answers -- 4.2.4. Attributed questions -- 4.3. Attributed interrogatives, "echo questions" and mood -- 4.4. The rising contour: Attribution to self -- 4.4.1. Some examples -- 4.4.2. Rising or rising-falling? -- 4.4.3. Discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Notes -- References -- Intonation and the Procedural Encoding of AttributedThoughts: The Case of Norwegian NegativeInterrogatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Propositional attitude in negative interrogatives -- 2.1. Right-detached items as procedural markers of propositional attitude in Norwegian -- 2.2. Word-tone as procedural marker of propositional attitude in Norwegian -- 3. "Prosodic mimicry" and attributed thought -- 3.1. Self-attributed thoughts -- 3.2. Theoretical considerations -- 4. Arguing with an "indirect addressee" -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Modality and Semantic Underdeterminacy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous analyses of the English modals -- 2.1. The ambiguity view -- 2.2. The polysemy view -- 2.3. The monosemy view -- 2.4. A relevance-theoretic proposal -- 3. Modal verbs and semantic underdeterminacy -- 3.1. The semantics of may -- 3.2. The pragmatics of may (1) : Root interpretations -- 3.3. The pragmatics of may (2): Epistemic interpretations -- 4. The grammatical status of the root-epistemicdistinction: A reconsideration of the evidence -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- A Relevance-theoretic Account of MetarepresentativeUses in Conditionals -- 0. Preamble -- 1. An introductory survey of accounts of conditionals -- 2. Metarepresentative use of antecedents -- 2. 1. "Given" antecedents in the literature -- 2.1.1. "Givenness" in general -- 2.1.2. Accounts of "given" antecedents.

2.2. Metarepresentational antecedents -- 2.2.1. Metarepresentation in Relevance Theory -- 2.2.2. Various types of metarepresentational antecedents -- 2.2.3. Truth conditions of metarepresentational antecedents -- 3. Metarepresentative use of consequents -- 3.1. Speech-act accounts -- 3.1.1. Speech-act conditionals -- 3.1.2. Metalinguistic conditionals -- 3.1.3. Some problems with speech-act accounts -- 3.2. A metarepresentational account -- 3.2.1. Metarepresentational consequents -- 3.2.2. Truth conditions of metarepresentational consequents -- 4. A suggestion: metarepresentative use in antecedent andconsequent -- 4.1. Metarepresentative uses in both clauses of a conditional -- 4.2. "Counter/actual indicative " conditionals -- 4.3. Horn's metalinguistic metaphorical conditionals -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Indirect Echoes and Verbal Humour -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pragmatic mechanisms of humour: entertainingcontradictory propositional contents -- 3. Humour and incongruity -- 4. The implicit expression of the speaker's propositionalattitude -- 5. Pragmatic mechanisms of humour: generating theoverall effect -- 6. Echoic interpretations and the interpretation of verbalhumour -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- What Is Phatic Communication? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevance Theory -- 2.1. Manifestness -- 2.2. The Principle of Relevance -- 3. Ostensive Communication and Phatic Interpretation -- 4. Phatic Communication as a Social Institution -- 4.1. Standardization -- 4.2. Conventionalization -- 5. Phatic Communication: Risk and Responsibility -- 6. Phatic communication and politeness -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.