TEORIA RELEVANȚEI COGNITIVE îN COMUNICARE:<br />O ANALIZĂ CRITICĂ

Abstract

In this paper I present and analyze the theory of communication developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, specially the arguments they offer for this theory in their article Truthfulness and Relevance. They address the classical problem of deriving the speaker’s meaning from the sentence meaning, challenging the solutions proposed by Paul Grice and David Lewis based on the concept of “truthfulness”. They replace this simple theory by a more complex model of communication in which the main concept will be that of “relevance”. I will offer some counterexamples that, in my opinion, prove that the concept of “cognitive relevance” is not sufficient for deriving the speaker’s meaning from the sentence meaning in every communicational situation.