{"product_id":"relevance-isbn-9780631198789","title":"Relevance","description":"\u003ci\u003eRelevance,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Educational Supplement.\u003c\/i\u003e This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book sets out to lay the foundation for a unified theory of cognitive science. The authors argue than human cognition has a goal: we pay attention only to information which seems to us relevant. To communicate is to claim someone's attention, and hence to imply that the information communicated is relevant. Thus, a single property - relevance is seen as the key to human communication and cognition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA second important feature of the book is its approach to the study of reasoning. It elucidates the role of background or contextual information in spontaneous inference, and shows that non-demonstrative inference processes can be fruitfully analysed as a form of suitably constrained guesswork. It directly challenges recent claims that human central thought processes are likely to remain a mystery for some time to come.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThirdly, the authors offer new insight into language and literature, radically revising current view on the nature and goals of verbal comprehension, and in particular on metaphor, irony, style, speech acts, presupposition and implicature.\u003c\/p\u003e  Preface to Second Edition. \u003cp\u003eList of symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Communication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Inference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Aspects of Verbal Communication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to Postface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  ‘This book … is very likely to become a classic, not only because of its potential implications for linguistics, cognitive psychology and anthropology, but because of the range and originality of the theory it proposes.’ – \u003cb\u003ePascal Engel, Revue Philosophique\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Cognitive science is very often marred by demarcation disputes and protectionist attitudes which have little or no rational basis. Occasionally, however, it works as it should and a book appears which reaches across the bread and butter lines which institutional life forces upon us. Relevance is, I think, such a book.’ – \u003cb\u003eAlan Leslie, Mind and Language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The repercussions of \u003ci\u003eRelevance\u003c\/i\u003e are likely in the long run to be great – felt first, perhaps, in the pragmatics of conversation, the philosophy of language, and reader-response criticism, but also in many other activities: construction of memory models, pedagogy, machine learning and (doubtless) advertising and propaganda.’ – \u003cb\u003eAlastair Fowler, London Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I recommend this book to people interested in linguistics, philosophy of language and pragmatics, and, definitely, to people who cultivate an interest in semiotics.’ – \u003cb\u003eUmberto Eco, L’Expresso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This is probably the best book you’ll ever read on communication.’ – \u003cb\u003eRhetoric Society Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDan Sperber\u003c\/b\u003e of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and the Université de Paris X, is author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking Symbolism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Anthropological Knowledge.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDierdre Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Linguistics at University College London, and the author of \u003ci\u003ePresuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eModern Linguistics: The Results of Chomsky's Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRelevance,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Educational Supplement.\u003c\/i\u003e This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989934850277,"sku":"NP9780631198789","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631198789.jpg?v=1761785964","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/relevance-isbn-9780631198789","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}