Relevance theory, pragmatic inference and cognitive architecture
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Relevance Theory, Pragmatic Inference and Cognitive Architecture
Relevance Theory (RT: Sperber&Wilson, 1986) argues that human interpretative processes maximize relevance and postulates that there is a relevance-based procedure that a listener follows when trying to understand utterances. However, Mazzone (2013) points out that RT fails to explain how speaker-related information, such as the speaker’s abilities or preferences, is incorporated into pragmatic ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Psychology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0951-5089,1465-394X
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2018.1497788