Rethinking Language, Text and Context by Ruth Page Beatrix Busse Nina Nørgaard & Beatrix Busse & Nina Nørgaard

Author:Ruth Page,Beatrix Busse,Nina Nørgaard & Beatrix Busse & Nina Nørgaard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

3. Indeterminacy and Caché

Clearly, Caché is a complex text which asks a lot of its viewers. Accordingly, accounting for interpretations of the film will require a complex framework. Work in relevance theory has aimed to reflect the complexity of interpretations in a number of ways, including that implicatures (intentionally communicated conclusions) can be more or less strongly communicated, that there is often no clear distinction between implicatures and non-communicated implications (implicatures are the subset of implications which are intentionally communicated), that it is not always clear whether a particular act is intentionally communicative and that communication can be understood in terms of adjustments in the salience of sets of assumptions rather than the definite presence or absence of particular conclusions within what is communicated (for recent discussion, see Sperber and Wilson, 2015). These ideas can help to account for some of the complexities involved in interpreting and responding to Caché. Here is a brief indication of how each of these can play a role in this. This section illustrates with examples from elsewhere before moving on to apply them in discussing Caché.

An influential idea in relevance theory is that implicatures can be more or less strongly communicated. If I say (1) to a new friend who has just made me a cup of tea:

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