Based on papers presented at a conference which was held May 29-30, 1993, Osaka, Japan.

Pragmatics and time / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber -- The Japanese adverbial yahari or yappari / Keiko Tanaka -- A relevance-based analysis of hearsay particles : with special reference to Japanese sentence-final particle tte / Reiko Itani -- Intonation and relevance / Kunihiko Imai -- Metaphor and metonymy / Nam Sun Song -- Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation / Akiko Yoshimura -- Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment / Tomoko Matsui -- Text and relevance / Seiji Uchida -- Informativeness, relevance, and scalar implicature / Robyn Carston -- On non-echoic irony / Ken-Ichi Seto -- Irony from a cognitive perspective / Hideki Hamamoto -- Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes / Masa-Aki Yamanashi -- Irony and relevance : a reply to Seto, Hamamoto, and Yamanashi / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson.