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Pragmatic connectives, argumentative coherence and relevance

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Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Weight: 960 KB
Volume: 3
Category: Article
ISSN: 0920-427X
DOI: 10.1007/bf00128944

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✦ Synopsis

This article is concerned with pragmatic connectives and their uses in discursive argumentation. Three approaches to pragmatic connectives will be presented:

(1) argumentation theory, which implies a conception of pragmatics integrated within semantics, and a specific type of argumentative rules, called 'topoi'; (2) discourse structure theory, which associates a function in the structuring of discourse sequences to pragmatic connectives; (3) relevance theory, which constitutes a cognitive pragmatic theory, in which no specific principle is associated to linguistic items. However, two main functions to pragmatic connectives can be proposed: the facilitation of inferences, and the access to relevance. The final purpose of this article is to indicate how argumentative effects in discourse can be explained in a cognitively-based pragmatic theory.

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