relevance theory
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- In pragmatics: Relevance theory
…contemporary approaches to pragmatics is relevance theory, introduced in the mid-1980s by the cognitive scientists and philosophers Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson. Relevance theory is in fact a general theory of cognition applied to utterance interpretation. Its central claim is based on an understanding of relevance as a ratio of…
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