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<p><i>Relevance,</i> first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the <i>Times Higher Educational Supplement.</i> This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions.</p> <p>The book sets out to lay the foundation for a unified theory of cognitive science. The authors argue than human cognition has a goal: we pay attention only to information which seems to us relevant. To communicate is to claim someone's attention, and hence to imply that the information communicated is relevant. Thus, a single property - relevance is seen as the key to human communication and cognition.</p> <p>A second important feature of the book is its approach to the study of reasoning. It elucidates the role of background or contextual information in spontaneous inference, and shows that non-demonstrative inference processes can be fruitfully analysed as a form of suitably constrained guesswork. It directly challenges recent claims that human central thought processes are likely to remain a mystery for s

Who reads Relevance : communication and cognition?

Author

Sperber, Dan, Wilson, Deirdre

Publisher

Blackwell, 1995.

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631137573

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.4 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14