The challenges of explicit and implicit communication: a relevance-theoretic approach - 11

Relevance theory provides an original theoretical framework to capture the complex nature and intricacies of the processes underlying ostensive communication.

The model has been in constant development for the last 30 years, and this study contributes to it by challenging free enrichment as an important explicature-generation procedure.

The mechanisms underlying the recovery of explicitly and implicitly communicated meanings are explored in this book.