Inferential Account of Communication, and Information Theory<br/>

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Inferential Account of Communication, and Information Theory

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 39533 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Ghadakpour, Laleh
Abstract:
The inferential approach, in contrast with classic model of coding-decoding, regards communication something more than the mere decoding of the received message, and points to the inference as a pivotal element for the discovery of the intentional meaning in a communication. This line of research was beginned with the works of Paul Grice in the literature of the pragmatics. His theory proposes its cooperation principle and conversational maxims for that aim.Relevance theory, while accepting the pivotal role of the inference, replaces cognitive principle of relevance with those Gricean rules. Hence, it proposes a more comprehensive explanation of communication, with more simplicity and unification. This writing, borrowing the concept of Information from the Communicative Theory of Information, tries to propose an alternative explanation for the theoretical endeavour of the relevance theory, and pointing to some weaknesses of that theory, tries to enhance and develope this theory for the explanation of the communicative action.
Keywords:
Communications ; Inference ; Information ; Inferential Account of Communication ; Pragmatics ; Cooperation Principles ; Relevance Theory

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