Posted: Jun 07, 2010 2:22 am
Yes (well, I read the book some time ago, at any rate), but unfortunately I can't tell you how popular this approach is nowadays.
This is a better introduction to relevance theory than the wiki article. Imo it's a very elegant and principled framework for understanding communication, unlike Grice's ad hoc maxims.katja z wrote:Not familiar, but a quick read of the relevant (hah) wikipedia article leaves me wondering what is so special about it, in the sense that the authors seem to formulate some very basic pragmatic principles. From today's perspective (and still going by the article in wikipedia), the theory doesn't seem to say anything revolutionary, but I'm not familiar enough with the history of linguistics to say what it brought at the time it was first proposed.