Relevance and prosody

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1559-1579

  Wilson, Deirdre ^a   Wharton, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inference; Pragmatics; Prosody; Relevance Theory; Signals; Signs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747190582     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.04.012     Document Type: Article

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