{"pk":27677,"title":"Relevance Theory, Pragmatic Inference and Cognitive Architecture","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Relevance Theory (RT: Sperber&Wilson, 1986) argues that human interpretative processes maximize relevance andpostulates that there is a relevance-based procedure that a listener follows when trying to understand utterances. However, Maz-zone (2013) points out that RT fails to explain how speaker-related information, such as the speaker’s abilities or preferences, isincorporated into pragmatic processes. He proposes that situational or goal schemata, with the speaker represented as a compo-nent, are sufficient to activate the hearer’s speaker-related knowledge and further asserts that human communication is drivenby goal management and action rather than relevance maximization. Yet Mazzone cannot fully explain how linguistic meaningand speaker-related knowledge are integrated within a modular system. Based on RT’s cognitive requirements and contempo-rary cognitive theory, we argue that this integration is realized within working memory via production-like conversational ruleswith which the constructed utterance interpretation should be consistent, and present a simple model of this process.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rv2v61x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Wen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yuan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Beihang University","department":""},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cooper","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27677/galley/17313/download/"}]}