Relevance: Communication and CognitionRELEVANCE, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT. This revised edition includes a new Postface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions. |
Contents
Inference | 65 |
Relevance | 118 |
Aspects of verbal communication | 172 |
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addressee answer assume assumption schema audience behaviour chunk code model cognitive psychology communicative intention communicator's intentions concept conclusion confirmation value Consider consistent contextual effects contextual implications convey decoding deductive device deductive rules definition derived disambiguation encode encyclopaedic entries encyclopaedic information evidence example explicature explicit fact factual assumptions Grice's Gricean Gricean maxims hearer human hypothesis illocutionary forces implicatures inference rules initial context input instance interpretation introduction rules intuitions involved Jennifer language linguistic logical entries logical form Mary Mary's maxims meaning memory modus ponens mutual knowledge mutually manifest non-demonstrative inference optimally relevant osso-bucco ostensive communication ostensive stimulus particular Peter possible pragmatic presumption of relevance principle of relevance processing effort propositional attitude propositional form psychological question reason recognise relevance theory semantic representations semiotic sense sentence set of assumptions someone speaker speech acts strength suggested Suppose syntactic synthetic implication thought tion true types utterance verbal communication words