Relevance Relations in Discourse: A Study with Special Reference to Sissala
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series)
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Using data from Sissala, a previously unanalyzed language, this book shows that the analysis of text and discourse is best approached from a cognitive rather than a strictly linguistic point of view. In two introductory chapters, Regina Blass argues that Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory, a general account of communication and cognition, sheds more light on conversational data than do alternative linguistic approaches based on such notions as...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521385156
ISBN13:9780521385152
Release Date:November 1990
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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