Relevance Theory

Ewa Wałaszewska and Agnieszka Piskorska are Assistant Professors at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. They are also co-editors of a number of publications related to Relevance Theory. Ewa Wałaszewska’s principal interests lie within the fields of semantics and pragmatics, including Relevance Theory, its applications to the study of particular linguistic phenomena as well as its theoretical implications for the investigation of human communication and cognition. Agnieszka Piskorska’s interests have been invariably connected with a relevance-theoretic approach to text interpretation and its impact on the hearer, especially in humour and translation studies.