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PRAGMATICS 梁正宇 zhengyul@ 560 6550 Review Politeness II Penelope Brown and Levinson Face wants Positive face and negative face Positive politeness and negative politeness Face threatening act Face saving act Off and on record Do you have any suggested topics for discussion? Session 11 The Relevance Principle Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson Relevance and cognition Relevance theory Contextual implication Other types of cognitive effect Relevance of an input to an individual Cognitive Principle of Relevance Topics for discussion Penelope Brown Stephen C. Levinson Dan Sperber Dan Sperber Directeur de Recherche au CNRS Institut Jean Nicod (EHESS/ ENS/ CNRS) 1bis av. Lowendal 75007 Paris, France dan@ Deirdre Wilson Professor of Linguistics deirdre@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk UCL, Dept Phonetics and Linguistics Gower Street WC1E ?6BT London UK Sperber and Wilson’s publications Selected Papers Wilson, Deirdre Sperber, Dan. 2004. Relevance Theory. Wilson, Deirdre Sperber, Dan. 2002. Truthfulness and Relevance.? Wilson, Deirdre. 1999. Relevance and Relevance Theory. Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. Discourse, coherence and relevance: A reply to Rachel Giora. Journal of Pragmatics 29: 57-74. Wilson, Deirdre Matsui, Tomoko. 1998. Recent approaches to bridging: Truth, coherence and relevance. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 10: 173-200. Sperber, Dan Wilson, Deirdre. 1997. Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences. Multilingua 16: 145-51.? Wilson, Deirdre. 1994. Relevance and understanding. Sperber, Dan Wilson, Deirdre. 1990. Rhetoric and relevance. In J. Bender D. Wellbery (eds) The Ends of Rhetoric. Stanford UP, Palo Alto: 140-55. Relevance and cognition Relevance theory An input is relevant to an individual when its processing in a context of available assumptions yields a positive cognitive effect. A positive cognitive effect is a worthwhile difference to the individual’s representation of the world: a