Presentation of the special issue on relevance theory: challenges and perspectives

Abstract

PRESENTATION/APRESENTAÇÃOThe organizers of this special issue of the Journal Linguagem em (Dis)curso (Language in (Dis)course) are proud to present to the academic community a set of nine studies in relevance-theoretic cognitive pragmatics. Relevance theory has proved to be one of the most promising lines of research for describing and explaining communication phenomena. Both the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance have been efficient to deal with complex inferential issues, ranging from the interpretation of oral or written texts to the interpretation of varied coded inputs such as images, nonverbal communication or multimodal arrangements, from off-line to on-line communication, from lexical to discursive matters, and so on. Relevance: challenges and perspectives is proof of the strength of this architecture, and every text here, including the more critical ones, acknowledges the value of the model.