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No Yao, No TMac, No Problem: Rockets Crush Lakers in Game 4 Gutt, Ernst-August. Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991. Ernst-August Gutt. Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context. Shanghai: Foreign Language Education Press, 2004. C. Application in the study of translation 南京市31条内河 “臭毛病”反复发 2011-6-6 现代快报 D. Application to the study of style A: Let’s get the kids something. B1: Okay, but not ice-cream. B2: Okay, but I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M. E. Application in the study of discourse markers You must listen to him. After all, he is your friend. At least, Anyhow, You know, 5. Evaluation of Relevance Theory Cognitive turn in pragmatics: it initiates a cognitive approach to - communication - context - utterance interpretation - inference - style --Its contribution to our understanding of context: how it explains the way context is constructed and involved in utterance interpretation; --Its contribution to our understanding of inference: how our inference works; --Its contribution to our understanding of style: how one talks the way he does, etc. According to relevance theory, the context for comprehension is no longer seen as fixed in advance, but is constructed as part of the comprehension process. Explicit communication is no longer seen as purely a matter of decoding, but involves an element of inference. An innovative view of context Relevance theory thinks that speakers can alter listeners’ cognitive context by virtue of communication. This theory is based on various theoretic system, and get more theoretic support than other theories on communication, and are thus more convincing. Its contribution to our understanding of communication: how it interprets the working mechanism of communication. A new view of communication