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    Relevance theory is a framework for understanding the interpretation of utterances. It was first proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, and is used...
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  • become relevant. If, on the other hand, you subscribe to a genetic theory of relevance then the study of genes becomes relevant. If you subscribe to the...
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  • phenomenon in relevance theory; see Relevance theory#Interpretation vs. description for an explanation. Levinson sees relevance theory as too reductionist...
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  • was called Relevance theory, developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson during the mid-1980s, whose goal was to make the notion of relevance more clear...
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  • Speech act (redirect from Speech-act theory)
    surrounding an utterance Politeness theory – Social and linguistic theory of politeness Relevance theory – Theory of cognitive linguistics Austin, J....
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  • Information manipulation theory Lexical entrainment Politeness theory Principle of charity Question under discussion Relevance theory Grice, Paul (1975). "Logic...
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  • proceedings Relevance logic, mathematical logic system that imposes certain restrictions on implication Relevance theory, cognitive theory of communication...
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  • Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological...
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    has been in linguistic pragmatics—specifically in the development of Relevance Theory with French anthropologist Dan Sperber. This work has been especially...
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    descriptor in some cases. Theory-theory is a reaction to the previous two theories and develops them further. This theory postulates that categorization...
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    Hellenistic theories of signs. Among the mainstream in the theories of signs, i.e., that of Aristotle and that of Stoics, the former theory filtered into...
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    attraction theory as part of a naturalistic reconceptualization of the social; (with British philosopher and linguist Deirdre Wilson) relevance theory; (with...
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  • Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological...
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  • 235 (Jul., 1950), pp. 320–344 Sperber, Dan; Wilson, Deirdre (2001). Relevance : communication and cognition (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers...
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  • Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological...
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  • causal theory of reference or historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have...
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    stimulus and response. Further theories of meaning include truth-conditional semantics, verificationist theories, the use theory, and inferentialist semantics...
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  • Linguistic relativity (category Theory of mind)
    never formally advanced any such hypothesis. A strong version of relativist theory was developed from the late 1920s by the German linguist Leo Weisgerber...
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  • combined by the syntactic operation. As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy...
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  • The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's...
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  • must be used until they can be effectively reformulated or replaced. The relevance of the tradition of negative theology to Derrida's preference for negative...
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  • simplexes. See also copula for the consequences of the verb to be on the theory of sentence structure. One scheme for classifying English sentences is by...
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  • Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological...
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  • implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication. Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which...
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  • translation. See also under Publications. Skopos Theory (Nord C. 1997), Attention Model (Gile D. 1995), Relevance Theory (Gutt E.A. 1991, Setton R. 1999). Israël...
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    Adventures of Tom Sawyer." in Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory (2018): 73+ online. Roberts, James L. CliffsNotes Twain's The adventures...
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  • Explicature was introduced by Sperber and Wilson as a concept in relevance theory. Carston gives a formal definition in accord with their reasoning:...
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    communication systems when early hominins acquired the ability to form a theory of mind and shared intentionality. This development is sometimes thought...
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    Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological...
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