Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Département de français, Tel-Aviv) et Nicole Le Querler (crisco, Caen).Édition papier : ISBN : 90-272-3135-4 ; 9789027231352 - Édition numérique : ISBN 978-90-272-9369-5.
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Numéro de : "Anglophonia : French journal of English studies", ISSN 1278-3331, 18, 2005.ISBN : 2-85816-815-6.
The central problem for pragmatics is that sentence meaning vastly underdetermines speaker's meaning. The goal of pragmatics is to explain how the gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning is bridged. This paper defends the broadly Gricean v...
Outlines basic tenets of relevance theories and presents various experiments providing evidence about these tenets
L?esprit humain se caractérise par deux capacités cognitives sans véritable équivalent dans d?autres espèces terrestres : le langage et la psychologie naïve. Nous suggérons que c?est grâce à l?interaction de ces deux capacités que la communication hu...
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When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems
When is a conclusion worth deriving? We claim that a conclusion is worth deriving to the extent that it is relevant in the sense of relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995). To support this hypothesis, we experiment with "indeterminate relational pr...
General overview of relevance theory
Sperber, Cara, and Girotto (1995) argued that, in Wason's selection task, relevance-guided comprehension processes tend to determine participants' performance and pre-empt the use of other inferential capacities. Because of this, the value of the sel...
Language is both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. Our aim here is to discuss, in an evolutionary perspective, the articulation of these two aspects of language. For this, we draw on the general conceptual framework developed by Ruth Millikan (...
We argue that the presence of a word in an utterance serves as starting point for a relevance guided inferential process that results in the construction of a contextually appropriate sense. The linguistically encoded sense of a word does not serve a...