Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence: The Pragmatics of Discourse Type

By Christoph Unger

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403985332
• ISBN13: 9781403985330
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"