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Editorial Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 9.1 (2013): 1­2 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2013-0001 The present issue of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics comprises six research articles addressing various aspects of language and communication dynamics. Adopting the view of pragmatics as an interdisciplinary perspective on language use and its contextual determinants, the authors investigate how meaning is generated during production and reception stages of linguistic interaction across various genres and socio-cultural backgrounds. The mediating quality of language and the representational and interactional functions of discourse are approached from several theoretical perspectives. Relevance theory-based studies offer insights into the cognitive principles and mechanisms involved in the construal of meaning-in-context, while the sociopragmatic analyses shed light on the interface of language, society, and culture. Finally, the book review calls into attention the philosophical grounding of pragmatic investigations. In the first article, Francisco Yus offers a cognitive pragmatic analysis of the language of humour and presents a new theoretical model of joke interpretation. Drawing on the insights from the relevance theory, Yus explores the relationship between certain linguistic stimuli and inferential strategies of those who interpret them, distinguishing three mechanisms, which are central to the process of joke interpretation, viz. make-sense frame, utterance interpretation, and cultural frame. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 9.1 (2013): 1­2 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2013-0001 The present issue of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics comprises six research articles addressing various aspects of language and communication dynamics. Adopting the view of pragmatics as an interdisciplinary perspective on language use and its contextual determinants, the authors investigate how meaning is generated during production and reception stages of linguistic interaction across various genres and socio-cultural backgrounds. The mediating quality of language and the representational and interactional functions of discourse are approached from several theoretical perspectives. Relevance theory-based studies offer insights into the cognitive principles and mechanisms involved in the construal of meaning-in-context, while the sociopragmatic analyses shed light on the interface of language, society, and culture. Finally, the book review calls into attention the philosophical grounding of pragmatic investigations. In the first article, Francisco Yus offers a cognitive pragmatic analysis of the language of humour and presents a new theoretical model of joke interpretation. Drawing on the insights from the relevance theory, Yus explores the relationship between certain linguistic stimuli and inferential strategies of those who interpret them, distinguishing three mechanisms, which are central to the process of joke interpretation, viz. make-sense frame, utterance interpretation, and cultural frame.

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2013

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