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Senior Lecturer

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3296
Email : M.Jary@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 127

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About

Mark Jary teaches modules relating to linguistic meaning on the English Language and Linguistics programme. These include Meaning in Language, Semantics and Pragmatics. He also contributes to modules on the Translation and Spanish programmes.

Research Interests

Relevance theoretic semantics and pragmatics; assertion and the indicative mood; lingusitic mood, especially the Spanish subjunctive; linguistic politeness; the role of theory of mind in linguistic communication.

Publications

(2010) Assertion and false-belief attribution , Pragmatics and Cognition , 18(1).
(2008) The relevance of complement choice: A corpus study of ‘believe’, Lingua, 118, 1-18.
(2007) Are explicit perfomatives assertions?, Linguistics and Philosophy, 30, 207-234.
(1998) Is Relevance Theory asocial?, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 11.
(1998) Relevance Theory and the communication of politeness, Journal of Pragmatics, 30.
(2010) Assertion, Palgrave Macmillan.
(2009) Relevance, assertion and possible worlds: A cognitive approach to the Spanish subjunctive, Utterance interpretation and cognitive models. (P. De Brabanter and M. Kissine, eds.) Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley..
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