RELEVANCE THEORY IN TEXT AND DISCOURSE. Jutta Muschard

(Hanover University, Germany)

Relevance theory as a communication theory is "relevant" whenever text, discourse and communication are at issue, e.g. in language teaching, language acquisition, translation as interlinguistic communication, intercultural linguistic studies, humour theories, etc. Two of these areas have been investigated by the author and will, after a brief introduction to relevance theory, be discussed.