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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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Nutritional labeling, communication design, and relevance
Frontiers 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
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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Revista 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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Francisco Yus: Humour and Relevance
Philologia Hispalensis, 2016 Review
Manuel Padilla Cruz
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Words, Pictures, and Arguments: A Relevance-Theoretic Synthesis
Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2023 Whether visual representation can function in arguments is a controversial issue. Those who claim they cannot, claim that only propositions may function thus and that as visuals cannot represent propositions, they cannot function in arguments.
Gerald Delahunty
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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
Research in Language, 2023 This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research.
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
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, 2016 Abstract 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 ...
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Irony and Perspective-Taking in Children: The Roles of Norm Violations and Tone of Voice
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In order to understand most, if not any communicative act, the listener needs to make inferences about what the speaker intends to convey. This perspective-taking process is especially challenging in the case of nonliteral uses of language such as verbal
Franziska Köder +3 more
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, 2013 Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two parts - the first providing an overview of the essential machinery of the theory, and the second ...
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