The interdependence of repetition and relevance in university lectures  

Oleh:

Gimenez-Moreno, Rosa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 06 & 07 (2012), page 744–755.
Topik: Relevance; Repetition; Lectures; Spoken academic English; Rhetorical strategies; Effective teaching methods
Fulltext: Gimenez-Moreno_R.pdf (230.37KB)

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The world of professional communication includes so many innovative practices that a 25-century-old typology on repetition like Aristotle's or even a 40-year-old theory on relevance likeGrice's might seemobsolete or hardly appealing for today's lecturers. This research aims to examine and illustrate the interdependence between relevance and repetition in current lecturing by firstly reviewing the main communicative strategies used to indicate relevance in this genre, highlighting the essential role of repetition when understanding and processing relevant information. After providing an account of themost frequent repetitionmechanisms lecturers currently employ, a corpus of business lectures in English is analysed to detect their ‘Relevant Information Units’ (RIU) and to account for the rhetorical mechanisms used to repeat these units. This work provides evidence that classical rhetorical strategies remain up-to-date and indispensable in effective lecturing today, also underlines the particular role of Grice'smaxims andRelevanceTheory in this contextwhere relevance and repetition are inter-reliant and mutually supporting communicative entities which need to be jointly defined and applied

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