Maria Jodłowiec is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She teaches courses in applied linguistics and TEFL. Her research interests concentrate on linguistic pragmatics and, in particular, on utterance comprehension mechanisms as analysed in the relevance-theoretic model.

• Contents: Relevance Theory – Explicature – Implicature – Contextual assumptions – Relevance-theoretic comprehension heuristic – Free enrichment – Contextual cognitive fix – Strong communication – Weak communication – Speaker’s intentions – Mental representation – Depth of utterance processing – Shallow interpretation.

Maria Jodłowiec is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She teaches courses in applied linguistics and TEFL. Her research interests concentrate on linguistic pragmatics and, in particular, on utterance comprehension mechanisms as analysed in the relevance-theoretic model.

• Contents: Relevance Theory – Explicature – Implicature – Contextual assumptions – Relevance-theoretic comprehension heuristic – Free enrichment – Contextual cognitive fix – Strong communication – Weak communication – Speaker’s intentions – Mental representation – Depth of utterance processing – Shallow interpretation.

Maria Jodłowiec is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She teaches courses in applied linguistics and TEFL. Her research interests concentrate on linguistic pragmatics and, in particular, on utterance comprehension mechanisms as analysed in the relevance-theoretic model.

• Contents: Relevance Theory – Explicature – Implicature – Contextual assumptions – Relevance-theoretic comprehension heuristic – Free enrichment – Contextual cognitive fix – Strong communication – Weak communication – Speaker’s intentions – Mental representation – Depth of utterance processing – Shallow interpretation.