Book contents
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pragmatics and Emotion
- 3 What Is Emotion?
- 4 From Proto-pragmatics to Pragmatics
- 5 Relevance Theory, Non-propositional Content and Ineffability
- 6 Beyond Propositions
- 7 Emotion and Evolution
- 8 Pragmatics and Emotion
- References
- Index
8 - Pragmatics and Emotion
The Challenges Revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2023
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pragmatics and Emotion
- 3 What Is Emotion?
- 4 From Proto-pragmatics to Pragmatics
- 5 Relevance Theory, Non-propositional Content and Ineffability
- 6 Beyond Propositions
- 7 Emotion and Evolution
- 8 Pragmatics and Emotion
- References
- Index
Summary
We conclude our book with brief summaries of our responses to the challenges we outlined in Chapter 2. We argue that the account we offer here shows promise and that the evidence is clear that, of all theories of utterance interpretation, relevance theory is uniquely positioned to accommodate emotion and affect.
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- Pragmatics and Emotion , pp. 144 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023