Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Ministry of Education, General Directorate of Garmian Education, Kurdistan region of Iraq
2 English Department, College of Languages,University of Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region of Iraq
Abstract
The current study intends to employ relevance-theoretic comprehension procedures on Donald Trump''s HBO interview. Sperber and Wilson (1986/1995) proposed the theory as an inference-based framework for examining the cognitive interpretation of language. According to the model, certain procedures can be utilized to arrive at the speaker''s intended meaning. These processes include explicature, implicated premises, and implicated conclusions. The model further assumes that the addressee must consider that what others say is relevant in any particular circumstance. It''s questionable what governs how well someone understands what a speaker says. The study''s methodology uses a descriptive-qualitative approach, and the data came from an interview with Donald Trump conducted on the HBO channel''s AXIOS show. This interview took place in the White House on August 3, 2020. The research concludes that relevance-theoretic comprehension procedures can be used to analyze political interviews. Second, the hearer has to work too hard to arrive at the intended meaning of Trump''s words because of the loss of ostension caused by his profuse information in interviews.
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