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Relevance and multimodal prosody: implications for L2 teaching and learning

Frontiers in Communication, 2023
In this paper, I build on Scott's relevance-theoretic account of contrastive stress. Contrastive stress works as an extra cue to ostension in altering the salience of a particular constituent in an utterance and, as a result, the salience of one ...
Pauline Madella
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Proposal of interdisciplinary definition of proper name

Onomástica desde América Latina, 2021
This article makes a proposal of interdisciplinary definition of the concept of proper name based on Cognitive Onomastics (SJÖBLOM, 2010), Theory of Relevance (SPERBER &WILSON, 2001 [1995], (SEIDE & SCHULTZ, 2014), Neurolinguistics (VAN LANGENDONCK,2007)
Márcia Sipavicius Seide
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Irony in Selected Articles by Galal Amer [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2020
This study aims at expressing how irony is discovered and understood in GalalAmer’s verbal utterances. Of concern in this study is to explain how a reader successfully comprehends the speaker’s implied meaning in an ironical verbal utterances.
Marina Nagah Attia
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The relevance of words and the language/communication divide

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
First, the wide applicability of the relevance-theoretic pragmatic account of how new (ad hoc) senses of words and new (ad hoc) words arise spontaneously in communication/comprehension is demonstrated.
Robyn Carston
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Argumentation in the Interpretation of Statutory Law and International Law: Not Ejusdem Generis

Languages, 2022
This contribution bridges three fields—pragmatics, argumentation, and law. Arguments can be seen as the verbal formulation of inferences that articulate justificatory relationships, meaning that behind every argument is at least one argumentative ...
Jennifer Smolka
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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, Nicholas Griffen, Diana Mazzarella   +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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Francisco Yus: Humour and Relevance

Philologia Hispalensis, 2016
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Manuel Padilla Cruz
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Strength is relevant: experimental evidence of strength as a marker of commitment

Frontiers in Communication, 2023
When relevance theory tried to express the underlying processes involved during interpretation, Sperber and Wilson posited a process of context elaboration in which interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of ...
Kira Boulat, Didier Maillat
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Theory of Relevance

Academic International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
لقد ظهرت نظرية الصلة كنهج معرفي في مجال البراغماتية، وتقوم على مبدأين أساسيين: الإدراك البشري والمبدأ التواصلي.يميل الإدراك البشري إلى تحقيق أقصى قدر من الصلة، حيث يتركز المفهوم الأساسي للإدراك على فهم الرسائل من خلال توضيح محتوياتها بهدف تقديم أكثر تعبير مناسب ممكن. أما المبدأ التواصلي فيشير إلى أن الأقوال البشرية تخلق نوايا لتحقيق الصلة المثلى.
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