Explicit and implicit political communication: relevance theoretic perspective
Abstract
This study sets out to determine a beneficial theoretical and practical aspects in relevance theory. Theoretically, this study is hoped to be an productive contribute in providing to be useful posit of the importance of explicatures and implicatures in effective political interactions. Practically, this study could be made as the model for how speech effectiveness can change many political affairs especially in the most vital point in the UK Parliament the House of Commons. By studying relevance theory, people can be careful to determine the choice of words, phrases, clauses and sentences in expressing the ideas or meaning in a given context, because being relevant and intentional is an important thing in deciding whether the utterance used is implicit or explicit. Political actors are assessing their political context in order to provide their hearer with the most suitable utterance, suitable for the hearer and the immediate context. Political messages are of different forms but with common aim, which is to pragmatically take advantage of the other side of the communication to gain the public’s acceptance and support. As this study aims to explain how cognitively-pragmatically political communication is processed, through the use of explicatures and different range of implicatures.
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