Publications

Authored Academic Books

Wharton, T. & L. de Saussure (2023) Pragmatics and Emotion. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Wharton, T. (2009) Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Wharton, T. & D. Wilson (2009) Recent Advances in Pragmatics. Tokyo, Taishukan Publishing.

Edited Books

Wharton, T. & N. Allott (in progress) (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to the work of Paul Grice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wharton, T. E. Ifantidou & L. de Saussure (eds.) Beyond Meaning (2021) (with) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Edited Special Issues

Relevance in Mind. (2023) Special issue of Frontiers in Psychology (with C. Jagoe, D. Maillat & K. Scott).

Relevance-by-the-Sea. (2021) Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics (with C. Jagoe).

Peer-reviewed Articles in International Journals

Wharton, T., C. Jagoe. K. Scott & D. Maillat (2023) Editorial – Relevance in Mind. Research Topic for Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 14, 30 Nov. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1338336

Wharton, T. (2022) Relevance: communication, cognition and…? Pragmatics & Cognition. 28, 2: 321-346. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21013.wha

Dukes, D., Sander, D., Wharton, T., Parkinson, B.,  Greenspan, P., Ekman, P., Knutson, B., Scherer, K. & Cunningham (2021a) The rise of affectivism.  In Nature Human Behaviour. 5, 7: 816-820. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01130-8 (Public link https://rdcu.be/cmiCz)

Wharton, T., C. Jagoe & G. Williams (2021b) Mutual (mis)understanding: reframing autistic pragmatic ‘impairments’ using relevance theory. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 616664. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616664

Wharton, T. & C. Jagoe (2021c) Meaning non-verbally: the neglected corners of the bi-dimensional continuum communication in people with aphasia. In Journal of Pragmatics. 178: 21-30. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.02.027

Wharton, T., D. Dukes, D. Sander, C. Bonard & S. Oswald. (2021d) Relevance and emotion. Journal of Pragmatics, 181: 259-269 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.001

Wharton, T. & L. de Saussure (2020) Relevance, effect and affect. International Review of Pragmatics. 12: 2, John Benjamins: 183-205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01202001

Wharton, T. & L. de Saussure (2019) La notion de pertinence au défi des effets émotionnels. In Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage (TIPA), 35, Emo-Langages: 1-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/tipa.3068

Wharton, T. (2015) That bloody so-and-so has retired: Expressives revisited. Lingua. 75-6: 20-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.08.004

Wharton, T. (2014) What words mean is a matter of what people mean by them. Linguagem em (Dis)curso – LemD, Tubarão, SC, v. 14, n. 3, Sept./Dec. 2014: 473-488. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-4017-140302-0214

Wharton, T. (2011) Reply to Kensy Cooperrider. Gesture. Vol. 11, No. 3: 383-388.

Wharton, T. (2010) Recipes: beyond the words (2010) Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, 10(4): 67-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2010.10.4.67

Wharton, T. (2008) MeaningNN and showing: Gricean intentions and relevance-theoretic intentions. In special issue of Intercultural Pragmatics. 5-2: 131-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/IP.2008.008

Wharton, T. & D. Wilson (2006) Relevance and prosody. Journal of Pragmatics. 38: 1559-1579. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.04.012

Wharton, T. (2003a) Natural pragmatics and natural codes. Mind & Language. 18: 447-477. DOI: https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0242382486

Wharton, T. (2003b) Interjections, language and the ‘showing-saying’ continuum. Pragmatics & Cognition. 11: 39-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.11.1.04wha

Articles and Chapters in Edited Books

Wharton, T. (forthcoming) From Grice to Relevance Theory. In Allott, N. & T. Wharton (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to the work of Paul Grice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wharton, T. & O. Rezk (forthcoming) The relevance of emotion: pragmatics and affective science. In Scott, K., R. Sasamoto & B. Clark (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Relevance Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wharton, T. & E. Ifantidou (2024) Relevance theory and communication atypicalities. In Ball, M., N. Müller, & E. Spencer (eds.) Handbook of Clinical Linguistics.  John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 2nd Edition: 31-41 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119875949.ch3

Wharton, T. & P. Madella (2023) Non-verbal communication and context: multi-modality and interaction. In Romero-Trulli, J. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Context. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108989275.020

Wharton, T. & L. de Saussure (2022) The pragmatics of emotion: love, argument, conflict. In Scheiwer, G., J. Altarriba & B. Chin Ng (eds.) The Handbook on Language and Emotion. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Vol. 1: 664-680. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110347524

Wharton, T. & L. Cornell (2021) Before meaning: creature construction, sea-sponges, lizards and Humean projection. In Ifantidou, E., de Saussure, L. & T. Wharton (eds.) Beyond Meaning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 177-198 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.324.c11

Wharton, T. (2020) Acquiring prosody. In Schneider, K. & E. Ifantidou (eds.) Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics. Amsterdam: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9783110439717 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431056-009

Wharton, T. & C. Strey (2019) Slave to the passions: making emotions relevant. In Carston, R., B. Clark & K. Scott (eds.) Relevance: Pragmatics and Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 253-267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290593.022

Wharton, T. (2017a) Relevance. In Callan, H. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology: Anthropology Beyond Text. New York, USA. John Wiley and sons,

WWharton, T. (2017b) Paralanguage. In Steen, G. J., A. Barron & G. Yueguo (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. Abingdon: Routledge: 69-75.

Wharton, T. (2012a) Linguistic action theories of communication. In Schulz, P. & P. Cobley (eds.) Handbooks of Communication Science, Vol 1, Theories and Models of Communication. Amsterdam: de Gruyter Mouton: 241-256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240450.241

Wharton, T. (2012b) Prosody and meaning: theory and practice. In Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) Pragmatics , Prosody and English Language Teaching. Springer: 97-117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3883-6_7

Wharton, T. (2012c) Pragmatics and prosody. In Allen, K. & K. Jaszczolt (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press: 567-584.

Board of editorial consultants for The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Pragmatics (2009); contributed 12 articles: Communicative competence; Co-operative principle; Context; Heuristic; H. Paul Grice; Language evolution; Maxims of conversation; Misunderstanding; Natural meaning; Speech-act theory; Truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning; Utterance interpretation.

Wharton, T. (2006) The evolution of pragmatics. In Brown, K. (ed.) The Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics