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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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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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A relevance theory of induction [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2003 A framework theory, organized around the principle of relevance, is proposed for category-based reasoning. According to the relevance principle, people assume that premises are informative with respect to conclusions. This idea leads to the prediction that people will use causal scenarios and property reinforcement strategies in inductive reasoning ...
Gert Storms +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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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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Politeness: a relevant issue for relevance theory [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 The aim of this paper is to offer some guidelines for an explanation of politeness in the framework of Relevance Theory. I will suggest that the notion of social adequacy is to be preferred to that of strategy; as a primitive for politeness theory, and try to show how such a notion can be integrated into a cognitive model.
Escandell Vidal, Victoria
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Media Theory, Public Relevance and the Propaganda Model [PDF]
, 2018 Since its initial formulation in 1988, the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model (PM) has become one of the most widely tested models of media performance in the social sciences.
Chomsky, Noam +8 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 Theory and Qur'anic Collocation [PDF]
Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, 2021 The study explores lexical and figurative Qur'anic collocations in four translations. The four Translations chosen for the purpose of the study are as follows; The Meaning of the Glorious Coran (1970) by Marmaduke Pickthall, The meaning of the Glorious
Samah Hassan Abu-Serie Hussein
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