Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence: The Pragmatics of Discourse Type (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition)

by Christoph Unger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $155.05

  This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, it argues that the key to a solution lies in the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance proposed by Sperber & Wilson.