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THEORY
Presented By:
1. Mufidatun Nuriftitahiyah
2. Zandra Yolanda d.P
Introduction:
Two Basic Principles
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Origins Of Relevance Theory
Grice claims about that the important thing about most
human communication is
Expression Recognition
Coding
1. Classical Code Model
Decoding
2. An Inferential Model
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Utterance
• Definition:
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Relevance And
Cognition
Relevance can be considered from two points of view:
• Intuitively
• In relevance-theoretic terms
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1. What Sort Of Things May Be Relevant?
• Contextual:
Source must be, altogether:
1) the input itself
2) the context
• Other types:
– Revision of assumptions
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3. What Makes The Input Said Is RELEVAN?
• retrieval mechanisms
• inferential mechanisms
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Relevance & Communication
Universal tendencies
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Types Of Stimuli
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Ostensive
Stimulus
An ostensive stimulus is designed to
attract an audience’s attention and focus it
on the communicator’s meaning.
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Communicative Principle
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“Every ostensive stimulus conveys
and creates a presumption of its
own optimal relevance”
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Relevance & Comprehension
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Explicit Content
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The Comprehension Procedure
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How Does This Process Work?
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END OF SLIDE
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