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Publication details [#25465]

Gorayska, Barbara and Roger Lindsay. 1993. The roots of relevance. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (4) : 301–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

relevance | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Discussing the notion of relevance, this paper demonstrates that Sperber and Wilson's technical concept of relevance is counter-productive and their Relevance Theory based on unjustifiable assumptions, albeit suggesting to validate this model or to modify and extend it.