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Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence

The Pragmatics of Discourse Type
By:C. Unger
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403985330
eText ISBN:9780230288201
Edition:0
Copyright:2006
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.