CHAPTER I-V - Digilib UIN Malang

Then, understanding and relevance are as a set of cognitive which is
proved by the fifth principle of relevant theory which stated that the most
accessible interpretation is the most relevant. It means that actually the most
relevance is the easier to be understood. And it called by positive cognitive effect
as the result of implementation the process of essential principles of relevance
theory in understanding the utterance (spoken or written).
The aim in Relevance Theory is to generate the cognititve effect of an
utterance that are more important than enything else to which the interpreted
could be attending to in the context. This proces is not guided by linguistic form
but rather by what is accessible in memory and what has the most cognitive
utility. Since this the single principle in relevance theory, an interpreter need only
assume that the speaker believes his utterance is maximally relevant in order to
compute its content. 19
However, unlike Grice’s in Cooperative Principle, which speaker
voluntarily follows or disobeys, Sperber and Wilson’s principle of relevance (the
fact that utterances communicate a presumption of being relevant to the hearer or
reader) is spontaneous and biologically rooted in human cognition.
19 Op. cit. 2003: 75