The Challenges of Explicit and Implicit Communication ─ A Relevance-Theoretic Approach

Jodlowiec presents an original theoretical framework addressing the complex and intricate nature of the process behind ostensive implicit and explicit communication. The author has organized the main body of her text in four chapters devoted to relevance theory as a cognitive model of communication, explicatures and interpretation, within and beyond implicature, and relevance and the miracle of communication. Specific subjects addressed include cognitive effects and relevance, problems with free enrichments, implications versus implicatures, and many others. Maria Jodlowiec is a faculty member of the Jagiellonian University in Krak<’o>w, Poland. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Maria Jodlowiec is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She teaches courses in applied linguistics and TEFL. Her research interests concentrate on linguistic pragmatics and, in particular, on utterance comprehension mechanisms as analysed in the relevance-theoretic model.