Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence
The Pragmatics of Discourse Type
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:28th Nov '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
'This book has thrown a challenge out to linguistics: can any one theory account for the many-faceted nature of a text? Each chapter has been treated with significant depth to explain the author's thesis, to produce a book whose importance extends beyond the specific issues under scrutiny this book is an excellent contribution to scholarship in terms of the global coherence of text interpretation using GT and RT and the hypothesis of the cognitive pragmatic function of genre by Unger opens up many and varied research areas.'
Philippa Mungra, University of Rome, Italy, writing on LINGUIST List
ISBN: 9781403985330
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 535g
308 pages
2006 ed.