Communication is an effective and rich tool to transmit information to others. Different
models of communication, though, disagree on how beliefs are acquired via testimony …

Mikhail Kissine's (2021) target article examines autism in order to mine questions about
language use and its cognitive underpinnings. Among these, we focus on the question …

When relevance theory tried to express the underlying processes involved during
interpretation, Sperber and Wilson posited a process of context elaboration in which …

Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a
growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevance Theory has provided a rich …

Interaction between people is a cornerstone of being human. Despite huge developments in
languages and communicative skills, interaction often fails, which causes problems and …

This paper adopts the relevance-theoretic account of irony to describe the features of
humorous irony and to elucidate the nuances of its failure. In connection to the humorous …

Recent behavioural studies in experimental pragmatics investigate the effect of contextual
manipulations on the derivation of scalar inferences (eg Not all X-ed inferred from an …

Humans are vigilant against deception and misinterpretation thanks to a set of cognitive
mechanisms that monitor their interlocutors' benevolence, credibility, competence and …

The mind has developed vigilance mechanisms that protect individuals from deception and
misinformation (Sperber et al. 2010). They make up a module that checks the reliability and …

This paper offers a theoretical survey of the kind of constraints posited by Relevance Theory
to tackle variability in inferential processes. Focusing on inferences about speaker …