Her Books

NON-FICTION

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1986/1995. Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell

Smith, Neil V & Wilson, Deirdre. 1979. Modern Linguistics: The Results of Chomsky's Revolution. Penguin, Harmondsworth and Indiana University Press.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1975. Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics. London: Academic Press.

FICTION

Wilson, Deirdre. 1991. Slave of the Passions. London: Picador

Her Selected Papers

Wilson, Deirdre. Forthcoming. Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics. To appear in UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 16

Wilson, Deirdre. Forthcoming. Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics. To appear in Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, Special Issue on Pragmatics and the Lexicon

Wilson, Deirdre & Sperber, Dan. 2004. Relevance Theory. In G. Ward and L. Horn (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632. Longer earlier version (pdf) published in (2002) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 14: 249-287

Wilson, Deirdre. 2003. New directions for research on pragmatics and modularity. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 15: 105-127. Download (pdf)

Wilson, Deirdre & Sperber, Dan. 2002. Truthfulness and Relevance.  Mind 111:583-632. Version (pdf) published in (2000) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 12: 215- 254.

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 2002. Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading. In Mind & language 2002, 17:3-23. Special issue on pragmatics and cognitive science.

Wilson, Deirdre. 2000. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication. In D. Sperber (ed.) Metarepresentations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 411-448. Version (pdf) published in (1999) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 11: 127-161.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1999. Relevance and Relevance Theory. Entry in R. Wilson & F. Keil (eds) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 719-22.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. Discourse, coherence and relevance: A reply to Rachel Giora. Journal of Pragmatics 29: 57-74.

Wilson, Deirdre & Sperber, Dan. 1998. Pragmatics and time. In R. Carston & S. Uchida (eds) Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications. John Benjamins: 1-22. 

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. Irony and relevance: A reply to Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi. In R. Carston & S. Uchida (eds) Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications. John Benjamins: 283-93.

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon. In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher (eds) Language and Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 184-200. Version (pdf) published in (1997) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 9: 107-125

Wilson, Deirdre & Matsui, Tomoko. 1998. Recent approaches to bridging: Truth, coherence and relevance. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 10: 173-200.

Wilson, Deirdre & Sperber, Dan. 1998. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences. In A. Kasher (ed.) Pragmatics: Critical concepts. Vol. II. Routledge, London: 262-289.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. Linguistic structure and inferential communication. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists, July 1997

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1997. Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences. Multilingua 16: 145-51. 

Higashimori, Isao & Wilson, Deirdre. 1996. Questions on relevance . UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 8: 111-124. 

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1996. Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory: A reply to Chiappe & Kukla. Behavioral &  Brain Sciences 19: 530-32.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1996. Pragmatics. Entry in A. Kuper & J. Kuper (eds) The Social Science Encyclopedia – 2^nd Edition. Routledge, London: 661-2.

Wilson, Deirdre. 1994. Relevance and understanding. In G. Brown, K. Malmkjaer, A. Pollitt & J. Williams (eds) Language and Understanding. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 35-58.

Wilson, Deirdre & Sperber, Dan. 1993. Linguistic form and relevance. Lingua 90, 1-2. Special Issue on Relevance Theory, vol 2: 1-25. Version published in (1990) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 95-112

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. 1990. Rhetoric and relevance. In J. Bender & D. Wellbery (eds) The Ends of Rhetoric. Stanford UP, Palo Alto: 140-55.