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Relevance

Sperber and Wilson (1986) define this as an expectation on the part of the hearer that an attempt at interpretation will yield adequate contextual effects at minimal processing cost. This has been applied to translation, yielding such important distinctions as interpretive, descriptive, direct and indirect translation.

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