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Regards
Nick
Nicholas Allott
Relevance list administrator
n.allott@ucl.ac.uk
>
> Dear all,
> Iam a member of relevance list. Now I am busy with my dissertation
> proposal. I want to use relevance theory to explain 'unintended
> meaning'.
> And I have some questions to consult all of you:
> 1.Why the hearer overinterprete or misinterprete the speaker's intended
> meaning?
> 2.Can irrelevant phenomenon be included in unintended meaning?
> eg. A:How do you think of Mr. Brown?
> (B saw Mr. Brown was coming in this way)
> B:You have grown some lovly flowers.
> A:Hi, what's wrong with you? I think she is selfish.
> Can we say B's response is A's unintended meaning?
> 3.Can hearer deliberately misinterprete the speaker's intended meaning,
> and correspond to the speaker's "unintended meaning"?
> 4.Can we avoid the unintended meaning in utterance? And how?
>
> Can you give me some suggestions or recommand some references?
>
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Cathy (email: Cathy_shenzq@163.com)
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