The paper puts the central arguments for such a rule-based analysis under scrutiny, and presents evidence that the linguistic component provided by count-mass syntax leaves a more underspecified semantic output than is usually acknowledged by rule-based theories. Computational semantic approaches have traditionally analysed such sense alternations as being generated by an inventory of specialised lexical inference rules. This paper investigates a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g., shoot a rabbit/eat rabbit/wear rabbit). He has considerable experience teaching relevance theory at undergraduate and postgraduate level and was editor of the 'Foundations of Linguistics' section for the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics edited by Keith Brown.
billy clark is a senior lecturer in English Language in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University. With this book, students will understand the fundamentals of relevance theory, its origins in the work of Grice, the relationship it has to other approaches, and its place within recent developments and debates. Clark offers a systematic framework for understanding the theory from the basics up, building a complete picture, and providing the basis for advanced research across a range of topics.
The book is divided into two parts, first providing an overview of the essential machinery of the theory, and second exploring how the original theory has been extended, applied and critically discussed. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. Relevance Theory Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics.
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