Relevance Researchers’ Network
The Relevance Researchers’ Network is a space for those working on or using Relevance Theory to come together and discuss ideas.
Upcoming Events
Our talks take place on the last Wednesday of the month at 5:30 (UK and Ireland time) via Zoom. Links will be posted via the Relevance mailing list and via our Facebook group.
26th May 2021: Erika Marcet Torrijos (Dublin City): Learners’ Pragmatic Challenges and Relevance in the L2 context. Abstract.
30th June 2021: Christophe Heintz and Thom Scott-Phillips. Title: Relevance Theory & the diversity of human expression. Abstract. Preprint.
29th September 2021: Deirdre Wilson (UCL): Title coming soon!
27th October 2021: TBC.
24th November 2021: Pauline Madella (Middlesex): Relevance theory and L2 inferential comprehension: a multimodal approach to pragmatic development in L2 listeners.
Latest from the Blog
26th May 2021: Erika Marcet Torrijos (Dublin City University) Title: Pragmatic Challenges and Relevance in the L2 Context.
Abstract: Research on interlanguage pragmatics of L2 Japanese is limited in scope, as studies mostly focus on speech acts and other sociolinguistic and interactional strategies. As a result, researchers have yet to formally establish how learners of Japanese have difficulties with their production and interpretation of meaning from a cognitive perspective. Through Relevance Theory, this … Continue reading 26th May 2021: Erika Marcet Torrijos (Dublin City University) Title: Pragmatic Challenges and Relevance in the L2 Context.
28th April 2021: Tim Wharton (Brighton) and Constant Bonard (Institut Jean Nicod Department) Title: Emotion and Relevance.
Emotion and Relevance Wharton, Tim, David Sander, Daniel Dukes, Constant Bonard and Steve Oswald Handout for this session available here. The ability to focus on relevant information is central to human cognition and it is therefore hardly surprising that the notion of relevance appears across a range of different disciplines. As well as its central … Continue reading 28th April 2021: Tim Wharton (Brighton) and Constant Bonard (Institut Jean Nicod Department) Title: Emotion and Relevance.
Valandis Bardzokas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Title: Syntactic constraints on relevance
Abstract The aim of the presentation is to discuss Modern Greek (MG) causal subordination, as in He came back, epiδi (because) he loved her, with a focus on the type of meaning attached to pre-posed subordinate clauses in reversed configurations, as in epiδi (because) he loved her, he came back. In this connection, its ultimate concern lies with the … Continue reading Valandis Bardzokas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Title: Syntactic constraints on relevance
