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Relevance Theory

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2019
Relevance theory is a framework for the study of cognition, proposed primarily in order to provide a psychologically realistic account of communication.
F. L. Piparo, M. Carapezza
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Relevance Theory—Basics

2020
Abstract After showing how relevance theory is rooted in Grice’s “communicative principles,” the chapter explains the most important dimensions of “classic,” spoken language-oriented relevance theory and introduces the terminology used to label these dimensions, defining them for an audience of non-experts.
C. Forceville
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Relevance Theory

2006
AbstractRelevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human communication, was developed in the mid-1980s by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in their book, Relevance: Communication and Cognition, but their earlier publications also dealt with this theory, specifically comparing it to Grice's cooperative principle. Since then, it has become a highly
Francisco Yus
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Relevance theory: pragmatics and cognition

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2014
Relevance Theory is a cognitively oriented theory of pragmatics, i.e., a theory of language use. It builds on the seminal work of H.P. Grice1to develop a pragmatic theory which is at once philosophically sensitive and empirically plausible (in both psychological and evolutionary terms). This entry reviews the central commitments and chief contributions
C. Wearing
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What's in a code? The code-inference distinction in Neo-Gricean Pragmatics, Relevance Theory, and Integral Linguistics

, 2021
In this article we examine how Neo-Gricean Pragmatics, Relevance Theory, and Integral Linguistics account for the code-inference distinction in natural language. Although the distinction between encoded and inferred meaning figures prominently in each of
Thomas Belligh, K. Willems
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Relevance Theory and Literary Interpretation

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This concluding chapter reflects in general terms on some aspects of relevance theory that have been fruitfully used in the analyses in this volume, and on some aspects of literary communication that have been seen by both supporters and critics of ...
Deirdre Wilson
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Scientific Tractability and Relevance Theory

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation, 2019
There is a widespread view that communication and language use more generally are too complex to study systematically and scientifically1 (e.g. Putnam, 1978; Fodor, 1983; Chomsky, 1992b; Chomsky, 1992a; and perhaps Davidson, 1986).
N. Allott
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The relevance of Vygotsky's constructivism learning theory with the differentiated learning primary schools

Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
The purpose of this study is to analyze in depth the relevance of Vygotsky's constructivism learning theory in differentiated learning in elementary schools.
Sigit Wibowo, M. N. Wangid, Fery Muhammad Firdaus   +2 more
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