Essays Tagged: "Relevance theory"
Critically analyse the main theories on interjections like 'Huh!', 'Ah!', 'Ha!', etc.
the study of paralinguistic phenomena, Sperber and Wilson, who believe that it can be explained in relevance-theoretic terms and speech-act theorists who believe that interjections should be analysed ... ctions might be indicators of higher-level explicatures. This analysis comes under the framework of relevance theory and is alluded to in Deirdre Wilson's Discourse markers: Social and cognitive appro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics