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The role of context and relevance in translating European Union texts
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 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, 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
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
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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Relevance of the strange quark sector in chiral perturbation theory
Results obtained in recent years in the strange quark sector of chiral perturbation theory are reviewed and the theoretical relevance of this sector for probing the phase structure of QCD at zero temperature with respect to the variation of the number of
Sazdjian, H.
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"Looking behind the veil": invisible corporate intangibles, stories, structure and the contextual information content of disclosure [PDF]
Purpose – This paper aims to use a grounded theory approach to reveal that corporate private disclosure content has structure and this is critical in making "invisible" intangibles in corporate value creation visible to capital market participants ...
Holland, J.
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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
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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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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