Relevance theory - Clark, Billy (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2013)
A first outline -- Origins and alternatives: Grice, relevance theory and modern pragmatics -- Principles of relevance -- Explaining inferences -- Explicature and implicature -- Types of explicature -- Types of implicature -- Lexical pragmatics -- Figurative language: metaphor -- Figurative language: irony -- Linguistic semantics -- Conclusion: applications and recent developments.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Relevance; Semiotics; Language and languages