Dear Andre,
It depends on what you call communication.
A silence is communicative only if something in the attitude of the
non-speaker makes it clear that the silence is ostensive.
You may not have properly understood what RT calls communication.
Best,
Louis
Andre Sytnyk wrote:
>Of course this is still_Relevance_Theory!
>
>If there is Relevance Theory, there MUST be an Irrelevance Theory (not
>as the opposite, but as a complementary thereof), just as in the
>Tai-Chi Symbol. Just as silence, sometimes, is not the absence of
>communication, but communication itself (a descriptive and NOT an interpretative
>statement referring to nobody replying to my postings on the list
>until today :)
>
>
>Cheers,
>Andre
>
>
>
>
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