Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Contemporary Linguistics and Application

Author: (British) Sperber (Sperber, D.), (British) Wilson (Wilson,)
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Features: The front and back versions of this book are the same, all divided into four chapters, with a simple and clear layout. The author's writing is concise, but Levinson (1989) said that this book is easy to read but not easy to understand. The first chapter "Communication" introduces the origin of Relevance Theory and summarizes the author's view of communication. The second chapter "Inference" is the difficulty of this book. The third chapter "Relevance" is the core part of this book, as well as the key and difficulty. The fourth chapter "Some Aspects of Verbal Communication" selectively involves how to use Relevance Theory to explain linguistic phenomena.