Meaning And Relevance
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Meaning And Relevance
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Author : Deirdre Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-22
Meaning And Relevance written by Deirdre Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.
Meaning And Relevance
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Author : Deirdre Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Meaning And Relevance written by Deirdre Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Cognition categories.
"When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies"--
Relevance And Linguistic Meaning
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Author : Diane Blakemore
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-26
Relevance And Linguistic Meaning written by Diane Blakemore and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.
The Art Of Relevance
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Author : Nina Simon
language : en
Publisher: Museum 2.0
Release Date : 2016-06-14
The Art Of Relevance written by Nina Simon and has been published by Museum 2.0 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Art categories.
What do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in common? They are all fighting for relevance in an often indifferent world. The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.
Linguistic Meaning Truth Conditions And Relevance
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Author : C. Iten
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-05-13
Linguistic Meaning Truth Conditions And Relevance written by C. Iten and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .
Relevance Theory
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Author : Billy Clark
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-11
Relevance Theory written by Billy Clark and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The definitive introduction to relevance theory, starting from the basics and covering all its key ideas.
Meaning And Use
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Author : A. Margalit
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-11-14
Meaning And Use written by A. Margalit and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem on April 25-28, 1976. The symposium was originally planned to celebrate the 60th birthday of Y ehoshua Bar-Hillel, philosopher and friend. But his sudden death intervened, and turned celebration into commemoration. The topic of the symposiumwas Meaning and Use. For Bar-Hillel, the question 'meaning or use?' was of great importance, one which he took as a question of priorities. Which approach to natural language is prior: the formal, semantical approach, which accords a central position to the truth functional concept of meaning and to the theory of reference, or rather the alternative approach which accords the central position to linguistic commu nication and prefers dealing with speech acts to dealing with Statements? Bar Hillel's answer to this question, in his later years, can be summed up by our title, meaning and use: neither approach deserves priority, each is equally necessary, and they both complement each other. Those familiar with Bar Hillel's uncompromising intellectual honesty would know that this answer does not reflect a superficial wish for domestic peace, but stems rather from deep and informed convictions. The issues of meaning and use dominated Bar-Hillel's intellectuallife. At the same time his day-to-day existence was guided by the idea that the meaning of life is to be found in being useful, particularly in being useful to the community of seekers of knowledge.
Digital Relevance
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Author : A. Albee
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-02
Digital Relevance written by A. Albee and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Digital Relevance teaches readers the knowledge, strategies, and skills need to create content, instantly engage customers, and compel them to action by sharing ideas so seamlessly matched to each audience's context that they can't help but take next steps toward purchase.
Relevance Theory
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Author : Manuel Padilla Cruz
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Relevance Theory written by Manuel Padilla Cruz and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.
Argument Is War Relevance Theoretic Comprehension Of The Conceptual Metaphor Of War In The Apocalypse
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Author : Clifford Winters
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-09-25
Argument Is War Relevance Theoretic Comprehension Of The Conceptual Metaphor Of War In The Apocalypse written by Clifford Winters and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Religion categories.
In Revelation’s history, scholars have always assumed God’s violence was judgment. In Argument is War, however, Clifford T. Winters demonstrates that the “war” is using a conceptual metaphor to envision the restoration of Israel and, through them, the whole world.