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, 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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, 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
Językoznawstwo, 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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Universal Ratios in the 2-D Tricritical Ising Model [PDF]
, 2000 We consider the universality class of the two-dimensional Tricritical Ising Model. The scaling form of the free-energy naturally leads to the definition of universal ratios of critical amplitudes which may have experimental relevance.
A. A. Belavin +44 more
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Manipulating Meaning: Language and Ideology in the Commodification of Online Sociality
Open 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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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2022 This paper reports the results of an experimental study with a between subject design (N = 122) whose aim was to compare irony comprehension rates in face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC), and examine the influence of paraverbal ...
Ellis Raissa
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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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Relevance of coordinate and particle-number scaling in density functional theory
, 2013 We discuss a $\beta$-dependent family of electronic density scalings of the form $n_\lambda(\R)=\lambda^{3\beta+1}\; n(\lambda^\beta \R)$ in the context of density functional theory.
Constantin, Lucian A., Fabiano, Eduardo
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 This paper sets out to offer a review of the book by F. Yus (2016). Humour and Relevance. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Maria Angeles Ruiz Moneva
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Pragmatic reproduction of cultural-linguistic referents in translation from Spanish to Chinese
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2020 This paper examines the pragmatic translation of cultural-linguistic items through a relevance-theoretic study. The results suggest: 1) implicative value of the cultural-linguistic items is context-dependent and 2) loss of the linguistic form might ...
Zhishuo Ding
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