The Scope of Discourse Connectives: Implications for Discourse Organization  

Oleh:

Unger, Christoph

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 32 no. 2 (Mar. 1996), page 403-438.
Fulltext: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 403-438.pdf (750.03KB)

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The main aim of this paper is to discuss the claim that discourse connectives are best treated as indicators of coherence relations between hierarchically organized discourse units. It will be argued that coherence relations cannot be seen as cognitively real entities. Furthermore, there is no evidence for hierarchical organization in discourse. The intuitions underlying the notion of hierarchical discourse structure are instead explained in terms of consequences of processing a text in the search for optimal relevance. This account draws attention to a hitherto not widely discussed set of data.

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