The role of illocutionary status in the usage conditions of causal connectives and in coherence relations  

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Stede, Manfred

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 02 (2012), page 214–229.
Topik: Connective Coherence relation Speech act Illocutionary force
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Themeaning of linguistic connectives has often been characterized in terms of their position in a bipartite (semantic, pragmatic) or a tripartite (content, epistemic, speech act) structure of domains, depending on what kinds of entities are being connected (largely: propositions or speech acts). This paper argues that a more fine-grained analysis can be achieved by directing some more attention to the characterization of the entities being related. We propose an inventory of categories of illocutionary status for labelling the spans that are being connected. On this basis, the distinction between the content and the epistemic domain, in particular, canbemademore explicit. Focusing onthe groupof causal connectives in German, we conducted a corpus annotation study from which we derived distinct pragmatic ‘usage profiles’ of the most frequent causal connectives. Finally, we offer some suggestions on the role of illocutions in relation-based accounts of discourse structure.

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