Relevance theory and the effect of literature on beliefs: the example of Injun Joe in Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer
To what extent does literature affect our beliefs about the real world? Relevance theory offers new ways of exploring that old question. That is partly because relevance theory embraces the whole communications circuit: it tracks the communication of meaning from author via text to reader, rather th...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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