The addressee's understanding process starts then when she perceives an ostensive stimulus and stops when her expectations of relevance are satisfied, that is, when she has the most relevant hypothesis (the one with the most positive cognitive effects at the least processing costs) about the speaker's communicative intention.
But at a moment when big, dumb thrillers like "The Sum of All Fears" find themselves suddenly burdened with expectations of relevance, the utter and systematic irrelevance of "The Bourne Identity" to anything currently or formerly happening in the world comes as something of a relief.
Participants come to an online space with expectations of relevance and how to post [ 25].
Studies of other species that are done... without any short term expectation of medical relevance often turn out to be very important in understanding cancer.... progress often comes from unexpected directions.
The main purpose of this study was to elicit, describe, design, test, and analyze the Abu Dhabi high school students' experiences, interests, priorities, expectations, and images that are of relevance to the learning of science.
Selected studies were assessed for quality of their QoL instruments, using a 17 items checklist including 10 items for clinical face validity (issues of relevance to patients' expectations and concerns) and 7 items for measurement properties (such as reliability, responsiveness, etc).. Results: A total of 19 articles, 8 on instrument development and 11 on application, were included in the review.
Representative chemical analytes were chosen based on public health relevance and expectation of relatively widespread exposure.
Once you've shaken off expectations of coherence or relevance, you can marvel at the scale of Fellini's folly.
And contrary to my expectation that their efforts would be geared to the needs of undergraduates, with little of relevance to postgrads, there was in fact plenty for those finishing higher degrees too.
It is also of relevance the so-called negative placebo effect or nocebo whereby expectations of a negative treatment outcome lead to its occurrence.
