(Inter?)Subjectivity of Explicit Content in Relevance Theory

• Authors: Mioduszewska Ewa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Relevance Theory (RT) (Sperber – Wilson 1986 [1995], Wilson – Sperber 2004) postulates the existence of explicit content in utterance meaning, called explicature. The explicitness of explicatures might be expected to consist, among other properties, in their intersubjectivity. However, the RT theoretical assumptions and tools crucial to explicature construction and identification all seem to be individual-relative and, as such, subjective. If so, the explicitness of explicature needs further elaboration.

Keywords

EN

pragmatics; communication; intersubjectivity; Relevance Theory; explicature; ad hoc concepts

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 23/2
• Pages: 103-112

Contributors

author

Mioduszewska Ewa

• University of Warsaw

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