Truthfulness and Relevance

By Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction (2013, unknown): “…such expectations as part of the comprehension process, claiming that “since there is an infinite supply of true information which is not worth attending to…[a]ctual expectations are of relevant information, which (because it is information) is also true” (Wilson and Sperber, 2002: 627).”
Truthfulness and Relevance in Telling The Time (2002, background): “…are related in the following way: for an utterance to achieve relevance, it is required, not that what is said be true, but that the conclusions that the hearer is entitled to derive from his interpretation of the utterance be true (see Wilson and Sperber (2002) for a detailed discussion).”
Relevance and prosody (2006, methodology): “…helps with the construction of a satisfactory interpretation, but is not essential because the utterance provides evidence for a wide array of roughly similar conclusions, any of which would do (Sperber and Wilson 1986/95: chapter 1, sections 10-12, chapter 4, section 6; Wilson and Sperber 2002).”
Are explicatures cancellable? Toward a theory of the speaker's intentionality (2009, background): “The issue of implicature cancellation is relevant to the issue of explicature cancellation because the cases of explicatures analyzed by Wilson and Sperber (2002) and Carston (2002a) are cases of inferences in particular contexts.”
A deflationary account of metaphors (2008, background): “(On the mutual adjustment process, see Sperber and Wilson 1998a, 2005; Carston 2002a; Wilson and Sperber 2002, 2004; Wilson and Caarston 2007.)”
Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading (2002, background): “For a fuller relevance-theoretic account of lexical comprehension, and in particular of the relation between literal, loose and metaphorical uses, see Sperber and Wilson, 1998; Wilson and Sperber, 2000 .)”
Metaphor, relevance and the 'emergent property' issue (2006, background): “In each case, the outcome of the ad hoc concept construction process is an interpretation that would intuitively be classified as literal (see Wilson and Sperber, 2002).”
Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics (2011, background): “The broadening can be almost imperceptible, as in the following cases of approximation: 3 For recent relevance-theoretic treatments of metaphor, see e.g. Carston (2002), Higashimori (2002), Wilson and Sperber (2002), Vega Moreno (2007), Wilson and Carston (2007, 2008), Sperber and Wilson (2008).”
Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics (2002, methodology): “The following step by step description of the pragmatic processes involved in understanding Bob’s utterance in (10) is closely modelled on analyses given in Wilson & Sperber (2000) :”