Author: Anna Nizegorodcrew
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: relevance, language, acquisition, second, input, learners, instructed
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853599379
ISBN-13: 9781853599378

This book is intended for L2 teacher educators, L2 teachers and teacher trainees. It can be of interest to SLA researchers. It focuses on L2 classroom discourse analysis in the light of Relevance Theory. Input for instructed L2 learners is understood as the language presented by the teacher in order to facilitate the process of L2 learning/acquisition

Author: H. Thomas Johnson
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: regained, relevance
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0743236270
ISBN-13: 9780743236270

Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s. Johnson shows exactly how "managing by remote control" through results-oriented accounting information has obscured and obstructed the real business objective: to reduce process variation and lead times for the purpose of obtaining and keeping satisfied customers. The failure of most American businesses to be competitive and profitable in recent years, he contends, i

Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: argumentation, relevance
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 080584760X
ISBN-13: 9780805847604

In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of argumentation in which an argument, or part of an argument, has been criticized as irrelevant. Walton’s method is based on a new theory of relevance that incorporates techniques of argumentation theory, logic, and artificial intelligence. The work uses a case-study approach with numerous examples of controversial arguments, strategies of

Author: Tim Manners
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Keywords: matters, stuff, making, relevance
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-09-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1591842204
ISBN-13: 9781591842200

After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most influential leaders around, Tim Manners has discovered a solution to the marketing woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge advertising. Instead, focus on relevance. Manners shares how the best of the best create solutions to their customers’ problems and help them live happier lives. You’ll learn how: • Levi’s reasserted relevance when it created wardrobe solutions for men. • Dunkin’ Donuts stopped trying to mimic the look and feel of Starbucks and found success by deliv

Author: Elly Ifantidou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: new, amp, pragmatics, relevance, evidentials
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2001-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027251053
ISBN-13: 9789027251053

Authors:Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: cognition, communication, relevance
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-01-17
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0631198784
ISBN-13: 9780631198789

Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions. The book sets out to lay the foundation for a unified theory of cognitive science. The authors argue than human cognition has a goal: we pay attention only to information which seems to us relevant. To communicate is to claim someone’s

Author: Eun-Ju Noh
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: amp, new, series, pragmatics, approach, relevance, theory, metarepresentation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027250847
ISBN-13: 9789027250841

The metarepresentational ability - the ability to construct mental and public representations of other representations - has received much attention in recent work in philosophy and psychology. This is an exploration of the role of metarepresentation in verbal communication from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It looks in detail at four varieties of "metalinguistic" utterance - quotation, metalinguistic negation, echo questions and metarepresentational conditionals, and argues for a unified approach. Although these "metalinguistic" utterances have been the focus of considerable attention