Relewancja i redundancja w ujęciu strukturalistycznym i pragmalingwistycznym

Abstract

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 of pragmatic relevance. Pragmatic relevance (pertinence, practical relevance, situational relevance) is a relation appearing between a set of information looked up by a looking up informational system as a result of using a looking up instruction and a user of information, especially his/her informational need. The relation fixes the grade of usefulness of a technically and/or semantically relevant piece of information because of a user’s interest. Considered as the most important among factors creating behaviour of information users are personal features of a user, social experience, requirements of the environment, roles played in social groups, attitudes towards an object including the weight (‘importance’, ‘essentiality’, ‘meaning’) of fulfilling an informational need by a user, supposed consequences of an action under the circumstances of incomplete information, etc.