Dr Mark Jary

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3296 Email Address: M.Jary@roehampton.ac.uk

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 constributes 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

(2008) The relevance of complement choice: A corpus study of ‘believe’, Lingua, 118, 1-18.

(2007) Are explicit perfomatives assertions?, Linguistics and Philosophy.

(2006) Assertion, context change and knowledge acquistion , UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 18.

(2004) Indicative mood, assertoric force and relevance, UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 237-248.

(2002) Mood in Relevance Theory, UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 157-188.

(1998) Is Relevance Theory Asocial?, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 11.

(1998) Relevance Theory and the Communication of Politeness, Journal of Pragmatics, 30.