RT list: where is the RT module located? Right or left hemisphere or both?

The question Where is the Relevance Theory module located (in the right or
left hemisphere?) which nobody answer (nowe I understand why, since the
answer is not unproblematic) can be given a partial answer following the
literature based on Giora - pragmatics correlating with the right
hemisphere.

Then, after reading Kasher et al. Effects of right and left-hemisphere
damage... in Brain & Language 68, p. 566, I realize that the answer is
more complex.

If Kasher is right, then comprehension of inferences connected with
means-to-end analysis, which s urely also pertain to Televance Theory, is
located in the left-hemisphere.

Notice that this ability is clearly connected with speech act
comprehension (what type of speech act is this?) and with linguistic
comprehension.

In other words, a more general means-to-end analysis ability is duplicaed
in the right hemisphere.

So it looks as though a more specific module splits from a general module
(but Kasher does not consider central intelligence and the mechanisms
responsible for implicature interpretation in the right hemisphere a
module or modules).

In short, asked where to locate the Relevance Theory module, one could
reply that both the right and the left hemisphere are involved.

I did not see anything in the literature preventing us from positing a
module spread across two hemispheres.

Can you give feedback on this?
Received on Sat Sep 19 15:17:08 2009