"Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for the communication of non-propositional phenomena such as moods, emotions and impressions? What type of cognitive response do these phenomena trigger, if not conceptual or propositional? Do creative metaphors and unknown words in second languages and other 'pointers' to 'conceptual regions' communicate concepts learned from language alone? How might the descriptive ineffability of interjections, free indirect speech etc. be accommodated within a theory of communication? What of those working on the aesthetics of artworks, music and literature? What can evolution tell us about ineffability? The papers in this volume address these fascinating questions head-on. They represent a range of different attempts to answer them and, in so doing, allow us to pose exciting new questions. The aim, to bring the ineffable firmly within the grasp of theoretical pragmatics"--.

• Beyond Meaning
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • The territory
  • Beyond speaker meaning: Intentions and theory
  • The chapters
• Section 1. Beyond meaning: Ineffability and utterance interpretation
• Beyond meaningNN and ostension: Pragmatic inference in the wild
  • 1. Overtness and the domain of pragmatics
  • 2. Relevance theory
  • 3. Relevance and the interpretation of non-ostensive stimuli
    • 3.1 Comprehension in the absence of ostension
    • 3.2 The pragmatic processing of non-ostensive stimuli
  • 4. Pragmatics and the territory beyond meaning
  • References
• Contrastive stress in English: Meaning, expectations and ostension
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contrastive stress, interpretation and natural highlighting
  • 3. Relevance, ostension and the role of expectations
  • 4. Contrastive stress as a cue to ostension
  • 5. Contrastive stress and procedural meaning
  • References
• Presupposition effects: Beyond and within speaker’s meaning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Determinate and indeterminate presupposition effects
    • 2.1 Semantic presuppositions as determinate contents
    • 2.2 Discursive presuppositions as indeterminate meanings
    • 2.3 Two criteria to distinguish discursive presuppositions from implicated premises
  • 3. The ostensive and less ostensive continuum
    • 3.1 Presupposition effects and the relevance comprehension heuristic
    • 3.2 Presupposition effects as less ostensive meanings
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Metaphor comprehension: Meaning and beyond
  • 1. The issues
  • 2. The role of metaphors in meaning-making
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Participants
    • 3.2 Expert Judges
    • 3.3 Designed Test
    • 3.4 Rating
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Section 2. Beyond meaning: Ineffability and the written word
• Conceptual mappings and contextual assumptions: The case of poetic metaphor
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Poetic metaphor: Cognitive linguistics vs Relevance theory
    • 2.1 Cognitive linguistics: From time conceptualization to metaphorical creativity
    • 2.2 Relevance theory: Pragmatic adjustment and poetic effects
  • 3. Poetic metaphors of time and affective meaning(s)
  • 4. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
• An experiential view on what makes literature relevant
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General considerations on literature, communication and pragmatics
  • 3. Literature as experiential communication
  • 4. Experiential imports and relevance
  • 5. The procedurality of experiential impressions
  • 6. Applying the principle of relevance to experiencing impressions
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• Humorous means, serious messages: A Relevance-theoretic perspective on telling jokes to communicate propositional meaning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Understanding and enjoying jokes – a relevance-theoretic perspective
  • 3. The relevance of fiction and tropes vs. jokes
  • 4. What jokes tell us about the work of a physicist and the dangers of social media
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Section 3. Furthur beyond: Ineffability by meaning / showing
• Experiences of ineffable significance
  • 1. Experiences of ineffable significance
  • 2. Etiology: Discrepancies outside a normal range
  • 3. Epistemic feelings: Significance
  • 4. Ineffability
  • 5. Representation and metarepresentation
  • 6. An example
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• Hushed tones: Ceremonial treatment as a perspective shifter
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Weak communication, ostension and perception
  • 3. Relevance in cognition and communication
  • 4. Hushed tones
  • 5. Evading summary
  • References
• Onomatopoeia, impressions and text on screen
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Multimodality and meaning beyond verbal input
  • 3. Role of Telop in multimodal contents
  • 4. Onomatopoeia
  • 5. Telop and Onomatopoeia on TV
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Before meaning: Creature construction, sea-sponges, lizards and Humean projection
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Grice’s programme, meaning and creature construction
  • 3. Evolutionary groundwork and the ultimate goal: The sea-sponge
  • 4. Development of a sophisticated sensorium
  • 5. An environment of natural meanings
  • 6. Humean projection: Psychological internalisation and métareprésentation
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• Index