Relevance theory

Yus, Francisco ^[1]
1. [1] Universitat d'Alacant
  
  Universitat d'Alacant
  
  Alicante, España
Localización: The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis / coord. por Bernd Heine, Heiko Narrog, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-965839-8, págs. 679-701
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Relevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human communication, was developed in the mid-1980s by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in their book, Relevance: Communication and Cognition, but their earlier publications also dealt with this theory, specifically comparing it to Grice's cooperative principle. Since then, it has become a highly influential theory in today's pragmatics and has been applied to many types of discourse and research areas within pragmatics. This chapter discusses the following: cognition, communication, Grice and the role of intention, coding/inferring, mutuality, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, relevance as a cost–benefit procedure, the explicit/implicit distinction in utterance interpretation, relevance and grammar, and social aspects of communication.