Relevance: Communication and Cognition

Author: (English) Sperber (Sperber D.)
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Publishing 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, and the author's writing is concise. However, Levinson (1989) said that this book is easy to read but not easy to understand. The first chapter "Communication" introduces the origin of the 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 discusses how to use Relevance Theory to explain linguistic phenomena.