Relewancja w językoznawstwie

Abstract

Relevance theory that may be compared with Austin’s (1962) and Searle’s (1993) or Grice’s (1989) conceptions is important for a) communication theory and semiotics because it proposes its own (ostensive-inferential) model of communication, b) cognitive psychology because relevance theory is a cognitive one, c) philosophy of language due to its vision of language, d) theory of literature and literary criticism because it proposes some tools for them, i.e. analyses of figures of speech, indirect speech, irony (sarcasm), e) theory and practice of translation – see Gutt’s (1991) and others’ works, f) general linguistics because relevance theory proposes its own cognitive pragmatics referring to the hypothesis of modularity of the mind (Fodor 1983) and metarepresentational ability of the mind (Wilson 2000), g) applied linguistics and educational linguistics due to the rule of optimum relevance as well as cognitive efficiency in information processing involved in educational discourse.