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Publication details [#23823]

Roberts, Lawrence D. 1991. Relevance as an explanation of communication. Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (4) : 453–472.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | relevance

Person as a subject

Sperber, D. | Wilson, D.

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

A criticism of relevance-theory as proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1986:'Relevance'), which shows that relevance-theory is but a partial theory of ostensive-inferential communication, since it does not explain the fundamental and constructive parts of it.