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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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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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Argumentation in the Interpretation of Statutory Law and International Law: Not Ejusdem Generis
Languages, 2022 This contribution bridges three fields—pragmatics, argumentation, and law. Arguments can be seen as the verbal formulation of inferences that articulate justificatory relationships, meaning that behind every argument is at least one argumentative ...
Jennifer Smolka
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Taking stock of an idiom’s background assumptions: an alternative relevance theoretic account
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This paper begins by presenting the theoretical background of, and the accompanying psycholinguistic findings on, idiom processing. The paper then widens its lens by comparing the idiom processing literature to that of metaphor and irony. We do so partly
Ira A. Noveck +2 more
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