Relevance Theory and Communication Disorders

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-60

  Leinonen, Eeva ^a,b   Ryder, Nuala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acquired disorders; Clinical pragmatics awareness communication difficulties not attributed to 'purely' linguistic problems; Developmental disorders; Language disorder studies using Relevance Theory validated predictions of pragmatic complexity made by RT; Relevance Theory (RT) explaining how hearer infers speaker's meaning on evidence provided; Relevance Theory useful theoretical framework investigating theory of mind abilities in autistic children; Relevance theory and communication disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890582823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301007.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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