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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Relevance Theory"”.
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Negotiating a Punctuated Landscape: A Study of Asyndetic Translation Based on Relevance Theory
… texts. To do so, it adopts Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory, noting how this theory not only accounts for poetic effects but also provides a principle that can guide translators as they seek to replicate these effects. This thesis then uses relevance theory to analyze cases of asyndeton …
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Applications of relevance theory to the description of Galician and Spanish and to translation
… submitted herewith involves the application of Relevance theory (as a theory of verbal communication) to the description of Galician and Spanish, and to translation. The phenomena studied within these areas are examined from the point of view of language use. This allows us to see them together …
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Paul the bigot? Reading the Cretan quotation of Titus 1:12 in light of relevance theory
… are unsustainable when examined in light of Relevance Theory (RT). Although its application to Biblical Studies has been limited, the Theory provides crucial insights for both evaluating previous interpretations and for guiding historically and linguistically responsible readings. I argue …
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A metaphorical characterization of D.J. Opperman's Komas uit 'n bamboesstok in terms of relevance theory and the contemporary theory of metaphor
… to previous academic papers on the topic of relevance, this dissertation too responds to specific claims proposed by relevance theory. The relevance-theoretic account of the recovery of metaphorical interpretations is of particular interest and is considered relative to the assertions of …
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Communicating Metaphors in Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney
‘Relevance theory’ is a linguistic theory offering an alternative to the conventional ‘code model’ of communication, by suggesting that inference, rather than coding and decoding, is the primary driving force motivating interpretation. In this thesis, I consider the implications for literary …
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Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language
… them from the pragmatic perspective by applying Relevance Theory to explain their usage as representations that manipulate and modify their referents. The data comes from texts signed by native users of American Sign Language and are from academic lectures, interviews, narrative, and course …
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Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's 'Essais'
… of human interchange, the thesis draws on relevance theory, a cognitively-inflected framework of utterance interpretation in the field of pragmatics. Relevance theory holds that communicative acts provide only sparse evidence of the communicator’s intended meaning. The addressee must engage …
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… by Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski (1993) and Relevance Theory (Wilson & Sperber 2004) to describe Udi linguistic reference forms. I will examine these forms according to Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's hierarchy as a method of the introduction and tracking of participants, especially, in the …
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A relevance-theoretical and intertextual study of the wilderness motif in Hebrews, especially in Heb 12:1-17
… in Hebrews, particularly in Heb 12:1–17, from a relevance-theoretical perspective. Scholars have acknowledged frequent reference to wilderness traditions and texts in Hebrews, but none has so far demonstrated the extent of their influence on Hebrews’ thought: this is our goal. Having reviewed the …
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Resemblance-oriented communication strategies: Understanding the role of resemblance in signed and spoken languages
… of human communication.</p> <p>I have chosen Relevance Theory as the framework for this analysis because it highlights the importance of inferential communication. According to Relevance Theory, human communication is guided by expectations of relevance, a balance between cognitive effects …
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Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis
… analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of relevance theory.</p> <p>I have based my study on thirty-two (32) texts in Tunisian Arabic, looking at frequently-occurring discourse markers in these texts and analyzing them based on their discourse roles in terms of local cohesion and pragmatic …
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21st Century Community Learning Centers: Program Evaluation Evidence from Texas
… study include the logic model, social justice theory, and cultural relevance theory. This quantitative study utilized a nonexperimental and secondary data research design which utilized five statistical tests: the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, One-Way repeated ANOVA, Spearman Correlation, …
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The pragmatics of repetition, emphasis and intensification
… feature repeated utterances and forms. Within Relevance Theory pragmatics, pragmatic stylistics generally, and in some areas of linguistics proper, stylistic repetition is understudied and under-understood. The term is applied to a rag-tag muddle of phenomena that have little in common from the …
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The German reportative subjunctive: a relevance-theoretic analysis
This study uses Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory in order to provide an original account of the German verb form known as the reportative subjunctive, which occurs exclusively in indirect-speech contexts. It is argued that the German reportative subjunctive encodes procedural meaning, whose …
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An Evaluation of Grades 10 and 11 English First Additional Language Learners’ Interpretation of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Cartoons: A Case Study of the Sibasa Circuit, Limpopo Province
… Data was triangulated with thematic and relevance theory underpinning analytical perspectives. The findings of the study show that participants face various challenges that affect their ways of attaching meaning to visual texts (cartoons). The ability to make meaningful connections, …
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Relação entre a distribuição de dividendos e o preço da ação das empresas listadas na B3
… sector. The research was based on the Dividend Relevance Theory (LINTNER, 1956; GORDON, 1959) and by the Dividend Irrelevance Theory (MILLER; MODIGLIANI, 1961) and sought to verify which one prevails in the Brazilian capital market. The sample consisted of 154 companies between 2010 and 2015, …
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But and its Arabic Counterparts: A Relevance Theoretic Account
This thesis investigates, within the framework of Relevance Theory (RT), the semantics and pragmatics of the discourse connective but in English and its counterparts in Modern Standard Arabic, namely lākinna , lākin, and bal. The study focuses mainly on Blakemore’s (2002) relevance-theoretic …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
… and the comprehension failure. The notions of Relevance, Theory of Mind and Central Coherence are discussed and their application to Hyperlexia considered. The concluding discussion addresses a number of theoretical questions regarding the nature of Hyperlexia. Implications for intervention and …
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Fundamentos teoricos, desarrollo y proyecciones actuales de la linguistica del texto
… Sentence Perspective and T. A. van Dijk's theory) towards a concept of "text" as the minimal unit of sense in which either social (as in the systemic-functional grammar and additions to T. A. van Dijk's theory) or pragmatic aspects (i.e. S. J. Schmidt's textual theory and the operational …
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La literatura en la enseñanza del alemán como segunda lengua extranjera
… espanoles (1990), although the advances in the Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1986) substitute here some theoretical aspects of that work connected to the field of Discourse Analysis.Specific didactic units for the use of German Literature in our lessons, their detailed description and …
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