AuthorSperber, Dan
TitleRelevance : communication and cognition / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson
Imprint Oxford : Blackwell, c1995
Edition 2nd ed
Descript viii, 326 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Communication: Code of model and the semiotic approach to communication ; Decoding and inference in verbal comprehension ; Mutual-knowledge hypothesis ; Relevance and ostension ; Communicative intention -- Inference: Non-demonstrative inference ; Logical forms, propositional attitudes and factual assumptions ; Strength of assumptions ; Deductive rules and concepts ; Some types of deduction -- Relevance: Conditions for relevance ; Degrees of relevance ; Principle of relevance -- Aspects of verbal communication: Language and communication ; Verbal communication, explicatures and implicatures ; Identification of propositional form ; Implicatures and style ; Literalness and metaphor


SUBJECT

  1. Oral communication -- Psychological aspects
  2. Relevance
  3. Inference
  4. Cognition

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