Tim Wharton
Biographic Data
| ID | 920343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Wharton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wharton |
| SIGNATURE | WHARTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3702-1772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relevance theory
Relevance
Deirdre Wilson (2018) provides a reflective overview of a volume devoted to the historic application of relevance-theoretic ideas to literary studies. She maintains a view argued elsewhere that the putative non-propositional nature of (among other things) literary effects are an illusion, a view which dates to Sperber and Wilson ( 1986/1995 : 224): “If you look at [non-propositional] affective effects through the microscope of relevance theory, y…
The rise of affectivism
Meaning non-verbally
Relevance and emotion
The ability to focus on relevant information is central to human cognition. It is therefore hardly unsurprising that the notion of relevance appears across a range of different disciplines. As well as its central role in relevance-theoretic pragmatics, for example, relevance is also a core concept in the affective sciences, where there is consensus that for a particular object or event to elicit an emotional state, that object or event needs to b…
Relevance
The “frame” problem in logic presents the following challenge: produce a logical formula that describes the effects of a particular action without having to write corresponding formulae for the trivially obvious noneffects of that action. The problem has epistemological consequences. When processing a new fact, how do we sift through the vast amount of irrelevant information we have at our disposal and decide what is relevant? This entry addresse…
That bloody so-and-so has retired
What Words Mean Is a Matter of What People Mean by Them
This paper considers the extent to which lexical acquisition is an exercise of an associationist ability, a general mind-reading ability or a specifically pragmatic ability. Particular attention is paid to the role played in word-learning by natural communicative phenomena-gaze direction, facial expression, tone of voice etc.-and to the question of how such behaviours might be accommodated within a pragmatic theory. As well as sketching some poss…
Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication
The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, providing a unique examination of non-verbal behaviour…
MeaningNN” and “showing”
A much discussed feature of Grice's (1957) account of intentional communication is the line he drew between showing and meaning NN , where meaning NN typically involves a linguistic convention or code. This distinction has had substantial effects on the development of pragmatics: pragmatists have focused on the notion of meaning NN and abstracted away from cases of showing. This paper explores the central differences between Gricean meaning NN in…
Relevance and prosody
Interjections, language, and the ‘showing/saying’ continuum
Historically, interjections have been treated in two different ways: as part of language, or as non-words signifying feelings or states of mind. In this paper, I assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of two contemporary approaches that reflect the historical dichotomy, and suggest a new analysis which preserves the insights of both. Interjections have a natural and a coded element, and are better analysed as falling at various points along…
Relevance and prosody
That bloody so-and-so has retired
The rise of affectivism
Relevance and emotion
The ability to focus on relevant information is central to human cognition. It is therefore hardly unsurprising that the notion of relevance appears across a range of different disciplines. As well as its central role in relevance-theoretic pragmatics, for example, relevance is also a core concept in the affective sciences, where there is consensus that for a particular object or event to elicit an emotional state, that object or event needs to b…
MeaningNN” and “showing”
A much discussed feature of Grice's (1957) account of intentional communication is the line he drew between showing and meaning NN , where meaning NN typically involves a linguistic convention or code. This distinction has had substantial effects on the development of pragmatics: pragmatists have focused on the notion of meaning NN and abstracted away from cases of showing. This paper explores the central differences between Gricean meaning NN in…
Meaning non-verbally
Interjections, language, and the ‘showing/saying’ continuum
Historically, interjections have been treated in two different ways: as part of language, or as non-words signifying feelings or states of mind. In this paper, I assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of two contemporary approaches that reflect the historical dichotomy, and suggest a new analysis which preserves the insights of both. Interjections have a natural and a coded element, and are better analysed as falling at various points along…
Relevance and prosody
MeaningNN” and “showing”
A much discussed feature of Grice's (1957) account of intentional communication is the line he drew between showing and meaning NN , where meaning NN typically involves a linguistic convention or code. This distinction has had substantial effects on the development of pragmatics: pragmatists have focused on the notion of meaning NN and abstracted away from cases of showing. This paper explores the central differences between Gricean meaning NN in…
Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication
The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, providing a unique examination of non-verbal behaviour…
What Words Mean Is a Matter of What People Mean by Them
This paper considers the extent to which lexical acquisition is an exercise of an associationist ability, a general mind-reading ability or a specifically pragmatic ability. Particular attention is paid to the role played in word-learning by natural communicative phenomena-gaze direction, facial expression, tone of voice etc.-and to the question of how such behaviours might be accommodated within a pragmatic theory. As well as sketching some poss…
That bloody so-and-so has retired
Relevance
The “frame” problem in logic presents the following challenge: produce a logical formula that describes the effects of a particular action without having to write corresponding formulae for the trivially obvious noneffects of that action. The problem has epistemological consequences. When processing a new fact, how do we sift through the vast amount of irrelevant information we have at our disposal and decide what is relevant? This entry addresse…
Relevance
Deirdre Wilson (2018) provides a reflective overview of a volume devoted to the historic application of relevance-theoretic ideas to literary studies. She maintains a view argued elsewhere that the putative non-propositional nature of (among other things) literary effects are an illusion, a view which dates to Sperber and Wilson ( 1986/1995 : 224): “If you look at [non-propositional] affective effects through the microscope of relevance theory, y…
The rise of affectivism
Meaning non-verbally
Relevance and emotion
The ability to focus on relevant information is central to human cognition. It is therefore hardly unsurprising that the notion of relevance appears across a range of different disciplines. As well as its central role in relevance-theoretic pragmatics, for example, relevance is also a core concept in the affective sciences, where there is consensus that for a particular object or event to elicit an emotional state, that object or event needs to b…
Relevance theory
Psychology (11 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Relevance theory (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Pragmatics (7 works)