Agnieszka Piskorska
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnieszka Piskorska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnieszka |
| FAMILY NAME | Piskorska |
| SIGNATURE | PISKORSKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7297-1776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dynamism of context
While the recognition of context as a dynamic construct is pervasive, the process of selecting context during utterance comprehension in real time remains largely unexamined. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the dynamism of context as part of joke interpretation. We assume a relevance-theoretic definition of context understood as a set of mental representations involved in inferential processes that operate on a propositionally incomp…
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
Has madam read Wilson (2016)
This paper offers an account of Polish addressative forms encoding deference and familiarity in terms of the relevance-theoretic notion of procedural meaning, which underlies a heterogeneous range of phenomena linked to different cognitive domains. The procedure encoded by pronouns used referentially can be seen as targeting the domain of inferential comprehension and contributing to the truth-conditional meaning of an utterance by identifying a …
Being ambivalent by exploiting indeterminacy in the explicit import of an utterance
In line with recent interest in weak and often not fully determinate effects of communication permeating relevance-theoretic research, I contribute a discussion on two possible sources of speaker-intended indeterminacy within explicit import of an utterance: one residing in an intentionally underspecified location of an ad hoc concept between literal or non-literal (e.g. metaphorical or hyperbolic) interpretation, and the other lying in the highe…
New developments in relevance theory
Relevance: Communication and Cognition made a breakthrough in pragmatic research, shifting the spotlight from issues pertaining to discourse production and conversational interaction to cognitive phenomena underlying human communication. In their seminal 1986 book, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson sought to offer a comprehensive account of the inferential processes involved in utterance comprehension and how inferences are routinely made by the hum…
Neo-Gricean perspective on irony, deception, and humor vs. some insights from experimental studies
This article discusses a neo-Gricean approach to irony, deception and humor developed by Marta Dynel, confronting some of its assumptions and implications with results of experimental research. It is stated that Dynel’s modifications and elaborations of Grice’s original theory of conversation improve its coherence and provide adequate methodological tools for a comprehensive model of irony, deception and humor in multi-party interactions, and als…
Weak Communication, Joke Targets and the Punch-Line Effect
ArtykuÅ przedstawia analizÄ mechanizmów poznawczych stanowiÄ cych podÅ oÅ1⁄4e humoru w dowcipach sÅ ownych, wykorzystujÄ cÄ pojÄ cie tzw. sÅ abej komunikacji, zaproponowane przez teoriÄ relewancji. Podczas gdy wiÄ kszoÅ Ä pragmatycznych modeli humoru podkreÅ la rolÄ rozwiÄ zania inkongruencji oraz poszczególnych etapów inferencyjnych, przez które odbiorca jest planowo prowadzony w interpretacji Å1⁄4artów (por. Yus 2016), przedstawiona tu analiza …
Echo and inadequacy in ironic utterances
Metonymy revisited
Metonymy is a pervasive aspect of spontaneous as well as reflective linguistic performance and its cognitive and communicative role needs to be adequately attended to. The paper aims to offer a new model of metonymy grounded in the relevance-theoretic approach to communication, adopting the view that all comprehension is underlain by inferential processes. First, we present a critical overview of selected existing accounts of metonymy put forward…
A relevance-theoretic perspective on humorous irony and its failure
This paper adopts the relevance-theoretic account of irony to describe the features of humorous irony and to elucidate the nuances of its failure. In connection to the humorous potential of irony, a number of properties it shares with some types of humor are discussed, such as exploiting incongruity, being targeted at a victim, being creative, carrying an element of surprise, involving metarepresentational abilities, and establishing a bond betwe…
Interpreting for relevance
Interpreting for relevance
A relevance-theoretic perspective on humorous irony and its failure
This paper adopts the relevance-theoretic account of irony to describe the features of humorous irony and to elucidate the nuances of its failure. In connection to the humorous potential of irony, a number of properties it shares with some types of humor are discussed, such as exploiting incongruity, being targeted at a victim, being creative, carrying an element of surprise, involving metarepresentational abilities, and establishing a bond betwe…
Metonymy revisited
Metonymy is a pervasive aspect of spontaneous as well as reflective linguistic performance and its cognitive and communicative role needs to be adequately attended to. The paper aims to offer a new model of metonymy grounded in the relevance-theoretic approach to communication, adopting the view that all comprehension is underlain by inferential processes. First, we present a critical overview of selected existing accounts of metonymy put forward…
Echo and inadequacy in ironic utterances
Weak Communication, Joke Targets and the Punch-Line Effect
ArtykuÅ przedstawia analizÄ mechanizmów poznawczych stanowiÄ cych podÅ oÅ1⁄4e humoru w dowcipach sÅ ownych, wykorzystujÄ cÄ pojÄ cie tzw. sÅ abej komunikacji, zaproponowane przez teoriÄ relewancji. Podczas gdy wiÄ kszoÅ Ä pragmatycznych modeli humoru podkreÅ la rolÄ rozwiÄ zania inkongruencji oraz poszczególnych etapów inferencyjnych, przez które odbiorca jest planowo prowadzony w interpretacji Å1⁄4artów (por. Yus 2016), przedstawiona tu analiza …
Neo-Gricean perspective on irony, deception, and humor vs. some insights from experimental studies
This article discusses a neo-Gricean approach to irony, deception and humor developed by Marta Dynel, confronting some of its assumptions and implications with results of experimental research. It is stated that Dynel’s modifications and elaborations of Grice’s original theory of conversation improve its coherence and provide adequate methodological tools for a comprehensive model of irony, deception and humor in multi-party interactions, and als…
Being ambivalent by exploiting indeterminacy in the explicit import of an utterance
In line with recent interest in weak and often not fully determinate effects of communication permeating relevance-theoretic research, I contribute a discussion on two possible sources of speaker-intended indeterminacy within explicit import of an utterance: one residing in an intentionally underspecified location of an ad hoc concept between literal or non-literal (e.g. metaphorical or hyperbolic) interpretation, and the other lying in the highe…
New developments in relevance theory
Relevance: Communication and Cognition made a breakthrough in pragmatic research, shifting the spotlight from issues pertaining to discourse production and conversational interaction to cognitive phenomena underlying human communication. In their seminal 1986 book, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson sought to offer a comprehensive account of the inferential processes involved in utterance comprehension and how inferences are routinely made by the hum…
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
Has madam read Wilson (2016)
This paper offers an account of Polish addressative forms encoding deference and familiarity in terms of the relevance-theoretic notion of procedural meaning, which underlies a heterogeneous range of phenomena linked to different cognitive domains. The procedure encoded by pronouns used referentially can be seen as targeting the domain of inferential comprehension and contributing to the truth-conditional meaning of an utterance by identifying a …
Dynamism of context
While the recognition of context as a dynamic construct is pervasive, the process of selecting context during utterance comprehension in real time remains largely unexamined. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the dynamism of context as part of joke interpretation. We assume a relevance-theoretic definition of context understood as a set of mental representations involved in inferential processes that operate on a propositionally incomp…
Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Relevance (law (6 works) · Relevance theory (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)