Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. 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.
The 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.
A 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.
Thirdly, 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.
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个人不太喜欢这种enlightenment account of human knowledge而已~
评分花了几天时间集中啃，中间几处逻辑推导和步步论证真是看得神清气爽！前几天见到了Deirdre，听了她一段简短report，八十多了思维还是相当敏锐啊~（老太太私底下也超有趣，吐槽说书里的笑话都是Dan写的……
评分托课堂pre的福，对Wilson和Sperber的relevance theory有了粗线条的认识。
评分it's just entertaining to see the ending - "why not just adopt relativism and live happily ever after" after pages of serious talking
评分到第三四章开始跟不上，语言哲学和逻辑还是要补QAQ 特别喜欢提出representation概念到relevance theory提出的论述，也切实感觉到在攀着Grice协调原则的肩膀向上登。要一直重读。
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