Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources.
- Publications
- Influence
Relevance: Communication and Cognition
- D. Sperber, D. Wilson
- Psychology
- 6 March 1986
Preface to Second Edition. List of symbols. 1. Communication. 2. Inference. 3. Relevance. 4. Aspects of Verbal Communication. Postface. Notes to First Edition. Notes to Second Edition. Notes to… Expand
Linguistic form and relevance
- D. Wilson, D. Sperber
- Psychology
- 1993
© Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 2012. Introduction Our book Relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1986a) treats utterance interpretation as a two-phase process: a modular decoding phase is seen as providing… Expand
On verbal irony
- D. Wilson, D. Sperber
- History
- 1 June 1992
Some years ago, a referendum was held on whether Britain should enter the Common Market. There was a long campaign beforehand: television programmes were devoted to it; news magazines brought out… Expand
Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition
- D. Sperber, D. Wilson
- Psychology
- 1 December 1987
In Relevance: Communication and Cognition , we outline a new approach to the study of human communication, one based on a general view of human cognition. Attention and thought processes, we argue,… Expand
Truthfulness and Relevance
- D. Wilson, D. Sperber
- Psychology
- 1 July 2002
This paper questions the widespread view that verbal communication is governed by a maxim, norm or convention of truthfulness which applies at the level of what is literally meant, or what is said.… Expand
Metarepresentation in linguistic communication
- D. Wilson
- Psychology
- 2000
© Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 2012. Introduction Several strands of research on metarepresentation have a bearing on the study of linguistic communication. On the whole, there has been little… Expand
Relevance and prosody
- D. Wilson, T. Wharton
- Psychology
- 1 October 2006
Prosodic elements such as stress and intonation are generally seen as providing both ‘natural’ and properly linguistic input to utterance comprehension. They contribute not only to overt… Expand