Publications

Publication details [#11917]

Franken, Nathalie. 1997. Vagueness and Approximation in Relevance Theory. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (2) : 135–151. 17 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

relevance theory

Person as a subject

Reboul, A. | Sperber, D. | Wilson, D.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The author handles vagueness and approximation as two separate notions in relevance theory and concludes that this framework may not be able to account for sociocultural norms of communication.