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Communication in relevance theory [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Sperber and Wilson (1995) ground their definition of communication on their criticism of Grice's intentional definition of non-natural meaning. In such a perspective, communication is considered as an act rather than as a process.
Franken, Nathalie
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Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A central diagnostic and anecdotal feature of autism is difficulty with social communication. We take the position that communication is a two-way, intersubjective phenomenon—as described by the double empathy problem—and offer up relevance theory (a ...
Gemma L. Williams +2 more
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Linguagem em (Dis)curso, 2002 L’assertion centrale dans la Théorie de la Pertinence est celle dont les attentes de relevance sont précises et suffisamment prévisibles pour guider l’auditeur dans la direction du signifié de celui qui parle. Dans cet article, l’objectif est celui d’expliquer, dans des termes cognitivement ré ...
Wilson, Deirdre, Sperber, Dan
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Relevance theory for mapping cognitive biases in fact-checking: an argumentative approach [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIn the fast-paced, densely populated information landscape shaped by digitization, distinguishing information from misinformation is critical. Fact-checkers are effective in fighting fake news but face challenges such as cognitive overload and time ...
Mariavittoria Masotina +5 more
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A relevance-theoretical approach to “King Stakh’s Wild Hunt”: translating the Belarusian language and culture [PDF]
Studia Translatorica, 2020 This paper takes a relevance-theoretical approach to the English translation of “Дзікае паляванне караля Стаха” (1964), the Belarusian novel written by Uladzìmìr Karatkevìč – “King Stakh’s Wild Hunt” (translated by Mary Mintz, 1989).
Angelika Peljak-Łapińska
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Relevance and multimodal prosody: implications for L2 teaching and learning
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 In this paper, I build on Scott's relevance-theoretic account of contrastive stress. Contrastive stress works as an extra cue to ostension in altering the salience of a particular constituent in an utterance and, as a result, the salience of one ...
Pauline Madella
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Proposal of interdisciplinary definition of proper name
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2021 This article makes a proposal of interdisciplinary definition of the concept of proper name based on Cognitive Onomastics (SJÖBLOM, 2010), Theory of Relevance (SPERBER &WILSON, 2001 [1995], (SEIDE & SCHULTZ, 2014), Neurolinguistics (VAN LANGENDONCK,2007)
Márcia Sipavicius Seide
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Irony in Selected Articles by Galal Amer [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2020 This study aims at expressing how irony is discovered and understood in GalalAmer’s verbal utterances. Of concern in this study is to explain how a reader successfully comprehends the speaker’s implied meaning in an ironical verbal utterances.
Marina Nagah Attia
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The relevance of words and the language/communication divide
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 First, the wide applicability of the relevance-theoretic pragmatic account of how new (ad hoc) senses of words and new (ad hoc) words arise spontaneously in communication/comprehension is demonstrated.
Robyn Carston
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