Title: Cognitive Relevance of Utterance Interpretation
Abstract: Relevance theory is a new approach to pragmatics,which attempts to answer not only philosophical questions about the nature of communication,but also psychological questions about the interpretation process.It sees pragmatics interpretation as a psychological matter governed by a single cognitive principle.This paper introduces the basic theory of relevance and discusses the theory of utterance interpretation from the perspective of cognition.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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