Audience fit encapsulates the meaningfulness of a subject or a message to its intended audience. This may contrast significantly between different groups. The more audience-specific or tailored the information, presentation mode, or product is, the higher its audience relevance becomes. For example, a...
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback. Recent Examples of relevance Of what relevance is an absurdist fable, written in German, about a sad man who transforms into an insect, to an American teenager in the twenty-first...
9. He consistently provides relevant guidance to his team members. (形容词) 他始终为团队成员提供相关的指导。 10. The speaker addressed the audience in a relevant manner. (副词) 演讲人以相关的方式向观众发表讲话。 11. The company is looking for candidates with relevant experience in the field....
First and foremost, this is a model. There are to be exceptions—some performance issues, for example, may ruin it for an entire audience; and conformance issues (here, validation issues) could also be so bad that an entire service becomes inaccessible, meaning a dramatic user impact. It’s...
3. Including local references, such as mentioning Shanghai and the Pearl Tower, to resonate with audiences in Mainland China. 4. Encouraging heads of household, the specific target audience, to incorporate Neb Cafe into their morning routines. ...
Successful communication requires optimal relevance to a target audience. Relevance theory (RT) provides an excellent model based on this insight, but the impact of the theory has until now been restricted due to an almost exclusive focus on spoken face-to-face communication. Visual and Multimodal...
Intuitively,aninput(asight,asound,anutterance,amemory)isrelevanttoanindividualwhenitconnectswithbackgroundinformationhehasavailabletoyieldconclusionsthatmattertohim:say,byansweringaquestionhehadinmind,improvinghisknowledgeonacertaintopic,settlingadoubt,confirmingasuspicion,orcorrectingamistakenimpression.A 6 In...
Griceonceexplainedthatinmakingconversation,theparticipantsmustfirstofallbewillingtocooperate.ThisprincipleiscalledCooperativePrinciple(CP),involvingmaximsofQuality,Quantity,RelationandManner(truthfulness,informativeness,relevanceandclarity).However,heleftthemaximofrelation(‘berelevant’)undeveloped.“Relevancetheory”aimsto...
Intuitively, relevance is a potential property not only of utterances and other observable phenomena, but of thoughts, memories and conclusions of inferences. In relevance-theoretic terms, any external stimulus or internal representation which provides an input to cognitive processes may be relevant to ...
of food fed to animals, so as to protect both humans and animal companions, became evident.6 In 2009, a woman in Connecticut, USA, suffered a dreadful attack by a pet chimpanzee; and in 2010, SeaWorld animal trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by an orca in front of a horrified audience...