Original scientific paper

Cognitive Environments and Conversational Tailoring

Anne Bezuidenhout ; University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Abstract

This paper explores the psychological notion of context as cognitive environment (CE) that is part of the Relevance Theory (RT) framework and describes the way in which such CEs are constrained during the course of conversation as the conversational partners engage in “conversional tailoring”.

Keywords

Relevance theory; psychological notion of cognitive environment; conversational tailoring; procedural meaning; framing; centering

Hrčak ID:

167181

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/167181

Publication date:

30.9.2015.

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