Relevant: Having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand.* Relevance:
The ability as of an information retrieval system to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of …

This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations
between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the …

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II
and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of …

How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily
interactions? Through the use of such" folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and …

First Published in 1990. This book presents a new, interdisciplinary theory of news in the
press. Against the background of developments in discourse analysis, it is argued that news …

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the
world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and …

Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from
real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora–large collections of …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

It is argued that a sophisticated question-answering machine that has the capability of
making inferences from its data base should employ a certain four-valued logic, the …

Macrostructures are higher-level semantic or conceptual structures that organize the
'local'microstructures of discourse, interaction, and their cognitive processing. They are …