Dear all,
there's no doubt that the RT integration of coding and inference works very elegantly. I've just been wondering whether some non-Chomskyan relevance-theorist might not aim for a strong inferential model (dismissed in S&W 1986/95, p. 26f.) that would picture linguistic meaning as, say, a system of temporarily and locally more or less stabilised foci of relevance expectations which are similar enough across a set of people for practical purposes. The quasi short-circuited nature of inference from such foci would then put them at the bottom of a scale measuring efforts required for an inference. For even an automatic and unconscious process (as in "hearing" linguistic structure, cf. S&W 1986/95, p. 177) could still be analysed as an inference (as the "spontaneous, instantaneous and unconscious inferences about the movements of other vehicles while driving a car": ibid. p. 67).
Do you know of any such thinking within an RT framework, or of any arguments that once and for all preclude it?
Thanks a lot and all the best from freezing Berlin
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Malmberg
To: relevance list
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: RT list: Semiotic code model
Dear all,
I am unclear as to how important the traditional semiotic code model of communication is to RT. Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson seem to both reject it and then apparently integrate it into their RT model of communication. Does anyone have views on the matter?
Best wishes to all
Stefan
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