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Abstract
This research handles an important proposition that offered by Sperber and Wilson in their first and second editions of Relevance: Communication and Cognition in 1986 and in 1996 respectively. Assuming the addresser’s properly well-formed discourse, they suggest that the addressed message is relevant only when the addressee can accurately interpret the addresser’s intended meaning. Thus, they suppose that the degree of relevance is indirectly/inversely proportional to the effort of the interpretation process the addressee exerts i.e. the less effort, the more relevance and vice versa. Opposing their proposition of the addressee’s sole responsibility concerning interpreting the message, this research presents its hypotheses: the interlocutors’ schemata and mutual role well or badly affect the communicative interaction. Thus, it investigates the impact of each one’s unique schemata within a given context and the role each interlocutor plays to achieve relevance. Seeking validity and reliability, the research adopts the Triangulation methodology, mixing between the data primary source, Catherine Ryan Hyde’s, motivational novel, Pay It Forward (2014), and other secondary sources, used as the theoretical framework, in addition to the summative content analysis approach used quantitatively and qualitatively for data analysis. This quantitative starting and qualitative ending approach is used to reflect on the number of occurrences of the term assignment and its associative synonyms, and the significance of the outcome. Also, the content analysis approach is used for analyzing three discourses from a selected main scene. These manipulated examples show that not only the verbal communication but also the nonverbal language are relevant even if some of them are mere body languages or actions without utterances. After all, it is obvious that, to achieve relevant understanding and interpretation of any message/discourse/text, each of the first and the second involved persons of this specific communicative form has to consider his/her mutual role/duty in addition to regarding each other’s schemata and all the related contexts.