All Stories

  1. Ghost worlds

    Article • April 2026, John Benjamins

    Billy Clark

  2. Stylistics and relevance theory

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Billy Clark

  3. Linguists in schools

    Article • January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Billy Clark

  4. Undergraduate Research in English

    Article • July 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Billy Clark

  5. A relevance-focused production heuristic

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2022, Elsevier

    Billy Clark

  6. Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Billy Clark

  7. Manipulating inferences: Interpretative problems and their effects on readers

    Article • January 2020, Bloomsbury Academic

    Billy Clark

  8. Chapter 7. “Lazy reading” and “half-formed things”

    Article • December 2019, John Benjamins

    Billy Clark

  9. Pragmatics and Literature

    Article • November 2019, John Benjamins

    Billy Clark

  10. Introduction

    Article • November 2019, John Benjamins

    Billy Clark

  11. Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation

    Article • July 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Kate Scott, Billy Clark

  12. English After the Post-2015 A Level Reforms: HE Prerequisites and Perspectives

    Article • Changing English, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Marcello Giovanelli, Billy Clark

  13. Responding to reform: how aware are higher education English providers of A level reforms and how have they responded to them?

    Article • English in Education, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Marcello Giovanelli, Billy Clark

  14. Drawing Things Together: Concluding Remarks

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Billy Clark

  15. Relevance theory and language change

    Article • Lingua, May 2016, Elsevier

    Billy Clark

  16. “What do you want me to tell?” The inferential texture of Alice Munro’s ‘Postcard’

    Article • Etudes de stylistique anglaise, March 2015, OpenEdition

    Billy Clark

  17. CAN PICTURES HAVE EXPLICATURES?

    Article • Linguagem em (Dis)curso, December 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Billy Clark, Dr Charles Forceville

  18. Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Billy Clark

  19. The Language Detective: A Course for Young Linguists

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, August 2012, Wiley

    Billy Clark

  20. The relevance of tones: Prosodic meanings in utterance interpretation and in relevance theory

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Billy Clark

  21. Beginning With ‘One More Thing’: Pragmatics and editorial intervention in the work of Raymond Carver

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Billy Clark

  22. Special Issue on Inference and Implicature in Literary Interpretation

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Billy Clark

  23. Salient inferences: Pragmatics and The Inheritors

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Billy Clark

  24. Evolution of Syntax

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Billy Clark

  25. Linguistics as a Science

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Billy Clark

  26. Phatic communication and Relevance Theory: a reply to Ward & Horn

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, November 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Billy Clark

  27. Phatic interpretations and phatic communication

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, July 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Billy Clark

  28. Another brief note on implicature: by way of a further response to Green

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, February 1998, SAGE Publications

    Billy Clark

  29. Looking for an argument: a response to Green

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 1997, SAGE Publications

    Billy Clark

  30. Stylistic analysis and relevance theory

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, August 1996, SAGE Publications

    Billy Clark

  31. Let and let's: Procedural encoding and explicature

    Article • Lingua, June 1993, Elsevier

    Billy Clark

  32. Relevance and ?pseudo-imperatives?

    Article • Linguistics and Philosophy, February 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Billy Clark

  33. Pragmatics and inference

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Billy Clark