Relevance Theory -- Sperber & Wilson

Relevance theory provides a framework for understanding the interpretation of utterances. It was first proposed by Sperber and Deirdre Wilson and is used within cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The theory was originally inspired by the work of Paul Grice and developed out of his ideas but has since become a pragmatic framework in its own right.
The theory takes its name from the principle that "every utterance conveys the information that it is relevant enough for it to be worth the addressee's effort to process it", that is, if I say something to you, you can safely assume that I believe that the conveyed information is worthwhile your effort to listen to and comprehend it; and also that it is "the most relevant one compatible with the communicator's abilities and preferences", that is, I tried to make the utterance as easy to understand as possible, given its information content and my communicative skills.
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@ Sir any notes or any pdf regarding this theory?

[@toddmcdaniels1567]

Sherbet and Wilson defined cognitive load in terms of the number of inferences required to get to a relevant meaning. I have no idea why you are using “metonymies” and “synecdochies” and other such things as a stand in for that. I get that those things presumably increase cognitive load, but quantifying inferences is more directly what they are referring to. You also said nothing about the countervailing measure of increasing the newsworthiness of an utterance. So, a relevant utterance may require more inferences and still remain relevant if it makes something manifest to the listener that was not previously manifest.

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Yes you are right, too. It also increases the cognitive load, but figures of speech increase them, too.

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