Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics by Piskorska Agnieszka;

Author:Piskorska, Agnieszka; [Piskorska, Agnieszka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Finally, with the case of so-called “air quotes,” we find an orthographical convention represented in face-to-face communication via an iconic gesture (Lampert 2013; Cirillo 2019). This gesture prototypically involves the speaker “raising and flexing the index and middle finger of both hands twice,” and it is, Cirillo (2019, p. 12) suggests, a “kinesic representation of a punctuation mark”. Bolinger (1983), points out that prosody may be viewed as part of the “gestural complex” with its origin in iconicity and working in tandem with facial expressions and bodily gestures. It is therefore perhaps not surprising that we find gestures used alongside prosody to perform these functions in spoken interaction. Given these parallels between prosody and typography, we ask if we can learn anything about how typography interacts with meaning from existing work and ideas on prosody and interpretation. Wilson and Wharton (2006), Wharton (2009; 2012), Clark (2012; 2013) and Scott (2017) are amongst those who offer analyses of prosody which use ideas from the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework. In the next section, we introduce this framework and the associated notion of procedural meaning, before going on to discuss how these same ideas might be insightfully applied to the typographical data.

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