Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions.
The book sets out to lay the foundation for a unified theory of cognitive science. The authors argue than human cognition has a goal: we pay attention only to information which seems to us relevant. To communicate is to claim someone's attention, and hence to imply that the information communicated is relevant. Thus, a single property - relevance is seen as the key to human communication and cognition.
A second important feature of the book is its approach to the study of reasoning. It elucidates the role of background or contextual information in spontaneous inference, and shows that non-demonstrative inference processes can be fruitfully analysed as a form of suitably constrained guesswork. It directly challenges recent claims that human central thought processes are likely to remain a mystery for some time to come.
Thirdly, the authors offer new insight into language and literature, radically revising current view on the nature and goals of verbal comprehension, and in particular on metaphor, irony, style, speech acts, presupposition and implicature.
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圖書標籤: 語言學 語用學 relevence theory psychology communication 語言哲學 英文
TFM 粗讀 有時間想細讀 很好看的樣子
評分個人不太喜歡這種enlightenment account of human knowledge而已~
評分在RT娘傢的一年修行即將滿期,我遲早有一天要為這本書寫一篇很長的評論。推翻Grice的神像之後,我們應該立起來的是什麼?能告訴我們答案的,隻有我們自己。
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評分這輩子讀得最快的一本學術書 為瞭趕論文 = =
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