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  2. Relevance theory - Wikipedia

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    Relevance theory also attempts to explain figurative language such as hyperbole, metaphor and irony. Critics have stated that relevance, in the specialised sense used in this theory, is not defined well enough to be measured. Other criticisms include that the theory is too reductionist to account for the large variety of pragmatic phenomena.

  3. Immediate constituent analysis - Wikipedia

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    Harris expanded on Bloomfield's distributional analysis by providing a more formal approach to syntactic structure, specifically in English sentence analysis. In the 1940s and 1950s, Harris introduced the concept of immediate constituents as the parts of a sentence that can be directly combined to form larger units, such as noun phrases (NPs ...

  4. Relevance - Wikipedia

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    Relevance is the connection between topics that makes one useful for dealing with the other. Relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive science, logic, and library and information science. Epistemology studies it in general, and different theories of knowledge have different implications for what is considered relevant.

  5. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    This sentence suggests that the definite article the is a constituent in the test sentence. Regarding the test sentence, however, the omission test is very limited in its ability to identify constituents, since the strings that one wants to check do not appear optionally. Therefore, the test sentence is adapted to better illustrate the omission ...

  6. Semantic analysis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, semantic analysis is the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings. It also involves removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that ...

  7. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatics was a reaction to structuralist linguistics as outlined by Ferdinand de Saussure.In many cases, it expanded upon his idea that language has an analyzable structure, composed of parts that can be defined in relation to others.

  8. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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    The relevant ambiguity can be resolved by establishing a higher level of linguistic analysis. At this higher level, the two items can be clearly shown having two different structural interpretations. In this way, constructional homonymities at the phonemic level can be resolved by establishing the level of morphology, and so forth.

  9. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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    Phrase structure rules as they are commonly employed result in a view of sentence structure that is constituency-based. Thus, grammars that employ phrase structure rules are constituency grammars (= phrase structure grammars), as opposed to dependency grammars, [4] which view sentence structure as dependency-based. What this means is that for ...