For a number of reasons, those working in relevance theory have tended to regard the mental processes behind cognitive and emotion as existing in somehow separate domains. As a result, the emotional dimension to human mental life has tended to play very much a subordinate role to the cognitive one. The Relevance and Emotion Special interest Group focuses on ways in the balance might be redressed and explores how the elicitation and expression of emotion might be accommodated within relevance theory.
Co-leads:
Chara Vlachaki (Brighton)
Tim Wharton (Brighton)
Relevance Researchers' Network 