<p>My general aim in this work has been to provide an alternative, sociocognitive perspective on Gricean pragmatics in general and on flouting and flout-based meaning in particular. My specific aim has been to take some fundamental steps towards a<i> theory</i> of flouting and flout-based meaning. In fulfilment of these aims, I have deconstructed certain basic theoretical notions which are central both to Gricean pragmatics and to the specific issue of flouting and flout-based meaning, and reconstructed them from within Bakhtinian dialogism and the dialogically based socio-cognitive approach. During this process, the notion of cooperation as interpretational drive has been replaced by the notions of <i>reciprocal response-readiness</i>, <i>socialized interpretational drive,</i> and <i>imposed thematic relevance</i>; maxims have been re-interpreted and subsumed under a general notion of <i>intersubjective constraints</i> on <i>interaction</i>, and context has been explicated as <i>socio-cognitive context.</i> Finally, flouting has been defined as providing <i>imposed thematic relevance</i>, and the effects of this type of relevance on the hearer, that is, <i>heightened attention</i> and <i>increased interpretational activity</i>, have been explored.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-1013 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Greenall, Ann Jorid Klungervik |
| Publisher | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Det historisk-filosofiske fakultet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis, monograph, text |
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