Relevance

Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1986

Link

https://archive.org/details/relevancecommuni00spermatched

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims
  • Sperber and Wilson (1986) argue that all four reduce to a single principle: relevance — speakers should make utterances that are optimally relevant, balancing the cognitive benefit of processing the utterance against the processing effort required.
• Symbolic Representation
  • Together, these properties enable a distinctive style of reasoning — compositional, hypothetical, time-displaced — that other modes of representation cannot deliver, an analysis Sperber and Wilson (1986) ground in their relevance-theoretic account of how ostensive-inferential communication exploits coded conventions to generate new inferences.

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