The paper is an attempt to consider the issue of pupils’ language mistakes from the point of view of D. Sperber and D. Wilson’s relevance theory. The new approach to interpersonal communication in educational activities ...

Studies presented in the paper show children’s difficulties in acquisition of reading skills, difficulties arising from teachers’ methodical and essential mistakes. A phonetic method based on the synthesis and analysis ...

In categorization process the basic matter is not only the issue of definition models but first of all the question of putting a good construction on essential features in the meaning of a studied word. First works and ...

By means of an example of a particular lesson the author of the paper visualizes how relevance theory may improve leading classroom discourse, especially in separating contextual effects that make the basis for conclusions ...

An analysis of universal, objective definitions of relevance shows their inadequacy and fuzziness. Comparison of referring to relevance considerations in philosophy of common knowledge (A. Schutz), in a theory of cognitive ...

It does not exist one verified and widely accepted by speech therapists questionnaire for child language examination. A need to elaborate such an examination device seems to be essential and urgent. And this paper ...

The methodological conception presented in the paper enables to characterize relevance in two approaches: analytical and synthetic ones. The analytical approach consists in joining characteristics of communicativeness ...

The paper deals with roles that relevance and redundancy play in the process of acquisition lexical items from the sphere of linguistics. Referring to notions like category, linguistic category, semantic category and ...

The author of the paper is particularly interested in an originally structural notion of relevance involved in cognitive and pragmatic contexts of information processing and having in its terminological structure a notion ...