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Towards a pragmatics of non-fictional narrative truth: Gricean and relevance-theoretic perspectives

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
From a linguistic perspective, ‘truth’ is undoubtedly a pragmatic notion, as the truth of an utterance is not determined solely by its linguistic meaning, but is dependent upon the context in which it is uttered.
Berghoff, Robyn, Huddlestone, Kate
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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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An Analysis of Asking Opinions in The Textbook and Corpora

Jurnal KATA: Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, 2019
The study examined the occurrences of asking opinions in the textbook and the ones in the British National Corpus (BNC). Because the expressions in the textbook occur in isolation, it does not give sufficient context in which the expressions occur.
Rika Mutiara
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Bible translation and relevance theory [PDF]

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2014
No abstract available.
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Relevance theory and the social realities of communication. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Johnson M.
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Lying and Misleading within the Philosophy of Language: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective [PDF]

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2017
The aim of the paper is to examine the lying/misleading distinction from a relevance-theoretic perspective (cf. Sperber and Wilson [1986] 1995; 2004; Wilson and Sperber 2002; 2012).
Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk
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Cognition, Relevance and Ideology Formation through Travel Documentaries: A Longitudinal Approach to Audiences

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
The paper proposes a novel longitudinal approach to the study of the rhetorical effects of media by combining Audience Research (e.g. Schrøder et al., 2003), Social Semiotics (e.g.
Castaldi Jacopo
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Relevance Theory-based Cognitive Study on the Communication Effect of “China's Stories”

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2017
Telling the story of China and transmitting the voice of China has become a strategy to promote the national image and cultural soft power of China. Since its implementation in 2013, China has ushered in a significant change in communication ideas and
Yang Xiaohong
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How translations are willed into existence

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2019
This paper will argue that translations are willed into existence in three conceivable ways: pull, push and shuffle. Pull is the most intuitive form. It corresponds, for example, to a publishing house that decides to translate a foreign novel.
Stecconi, U.
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Argumentation and Cognition: Can Pragma-Dialectics Interplay with Pragma-Semantics?

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2007
This paper addresses the possibility of a cognitive account of argumentation, by focusing on a tentative interplay between one of today’s most influential theories of argumentation – van Eemeren and Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics – and Relevance Theory.
Steve Oswald
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