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Intro to Relevance Theory
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| Author: | Michael Kliffer | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Pragmatics
Cognitive Science |
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| Summary: |
Thanks to all who gave suggestions. Here are the main ones:
Maurizio Tirassa: Sperber, D., Wilson, D. (1987) Precis of 'Relevance. Communication and cognition'. ''Behavioral and Brain Sciences'' 10: 697-754. Don't be mistaken by the number of pages: the whole treatment includes a) the target article by S&W (actually, a resume of the book), b) several commentaries from the community of cognitive scientist (not only pragmaticists), and c) S&W's replies to the commentaries. Thus, it is highly modular, in that you can choose whatever selection of article(s) and/or commentaries you like, and very interesting, in that you can have a whole debate. Francisco Yus: The best introduction to RT, to my knowledge, is Diane Blakemore's book ''Understanding Utterances'' (Blackwell, 1992). Apart from this, there are many articles covering general issues of the theory. I published an article in Journal of Pragmatics called ''A decade of relevance theory'' (1998) which does cover most of the basic tenets. In any case, you should acces the bibliography on RT which is available on the Internet at www.ua.es/dfing/rt.htm. Section 2 of this page contains bibliography on general issues of RT and, most interestingly, some of the references can be downloaded from that page. Markus Tendahl recommends: 'a good, but slightly untechnical textbook': Blakemore, Diane. 1992. Understanding Utterances. Oxford: Blackwell. 'a very good and recent version of RT, but too big in its entirety for your purposes': Carston, R. 2002. Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication. Oxford: Blackwell. 'a good and concise introduction to the 'traditional' account of RT': Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. 1998. ''Pr?cis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition.'' In: Kasher, Asa, ed. Vol. V, 82-115. (this article is also available from the journal 'Behavioral and Brain Sciences') 'a good and concise introduction to the more recent account of RT': Wilson, D. & Sperber, D. 2003. ''Relevance theory.'' In L.R. Horn & G. Ward, eds., The handbook of pragmatics (pp. 607-632). Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell. I am probably going to select the Handbook of Pragmatics article or the one in Kasher 1998. Mike |
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| LL Issue: | 15.1837 | |
| Date Posted: | 16-Jun-2004 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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