The metarepresentational ability - the ability to construct mental and public representations of other representations - has received much attention in recent work in philosophy and psychology. This is an exploration of the role of metarepresentation in verbal communication from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It looks in detail at four varieties of "metalinguistic" utterance - quotation, metalinguistic negation, echo questions and metarepresentational conditionals, and argues for a unified approach. Although these "metalinguistic" utterances have been the focus of considerable attention in philosophy, linguistics and literary theory, this work treats them as special cases of a more general cognitive phenomenon: the phenomenon of metarepresentation. Two main results emerge: first, that pragmatic enrichment plays a major role in the interpretation of "metalinguistic" utterances; and second, that non-propositional elements - such as phonetic representations, images and gestures - may be incorporated into metarepresentations. The implications of these results for semantics and pragmatics are explored.
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