Applications of Relevance Theory

Agnieszka Piskorska is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She applies Relevance Theory to the study of interpersonal and affective aspects of human communication, including the use of humour and irony.Ewa Walaszewska is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests lie within semantics and pragmatics, and they particularly focus on Relevance Theory and its application to the study of particular linguistic phenomena, as well as its theoretical implications for the investigation of human communication and cognition.