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Nutritional labeling, communication design, and relevance

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
In this paper, I use relevance theory to explain the relative effectiveness of three different nutrition labeling systems in communicating information and influencing consumer food choices. Facts Up Front [also known as Reference intake (RI) or Guideline
Kate Scott
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Communication in relevance theory

open access: yesRevista 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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Is relevance theory asocial?

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998
This paper challenges the view that Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory is intrinsically asocial. To this effect, it is firstly shown how Relevance Theory provides a more satisfactory explanation of the 'politeness' of imperative sentences than Brown ...
Jary, Mark
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Strength is relevant: experimental evidence of strength as a marker of commitment

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
When relevance theory tried to express the underlying processes involved during interpretation, Sperber and Wilson posited a process of context elaboration in which interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of ...
Kira Boulat, Didier Maillat
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Francisco Yus: Humour and Relevance

open access: yesPhilologia Hispalensis, 2016
Review
Manuel Padilla Cruz
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The role of context and relevance in translating European Union texts

open access: yesВісник Київського національного лінгвістичного університету. Серія: Філологія, 2021
The article presents the nature and legitimacy of translation studies; it examines the function of a translator, its role during the translation process and the generated linguistic product from the point of view of cognitive pragmatics.
Ilona Lechner, Ilona Huszti
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Relevance Theory

open access: yes, 2016
Relevance theory is a cognitive approach to pragmatics which starts from two broadly Gricean assumptions: (a) that much human communication, both verbal and non-verbal, involves the overt expression and inferential recognition of intentions, and (b) that in inferring these intentions, the addressee presumes that the communicator’s behavior will meet ...
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Relevance Theory

open access: yes, 2013
Relevance·theory, one of the leading research programs in pragmatics, aims to provide a psychologically realistic, explicit account of communication. It makes foundational claims about both cognition in general and utterances and how they are processed in particular.
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The Polish Complementiser 'jakoby': a relevance theoretic account

open access: yesJęzykoznawstwo, 2023
This paper analyses the Polish complementiser jakoby within the framework of relevance theory. It suggests that those environments in which jakoby is licensed, namely certain indirect-speech-type constructions and clauses embedded under inherently ...
David Lilley
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Manipulating Meaning: Language and Ideology in the Commodification of Online Sociality

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
Marxist Internet scholars have recently shed light on the commodification and exploitation of social media users. While some of these studies have also acknowledged the ideological nature of how online sociality is understood and discussed, they have not
Harju Anu A., Lillqvist Ella
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