Titlebook: Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence; The Pragmatics of Di Christoph Unger Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publisher

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pothesise that theories of genre are needed only in code-based theories of communication, not in inferential ones. However, this hypothesis is premature since suggestions have been made in the literature to incorporate accounts of genre into Gricean pragmatics. These proposals fall into two broad ca

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Global coherence and global discourse relations certain linguistic items to the information conveyed by an utterance is crucially mediated by discourse-type (genre) information. This claim is a central feature of coherence-based theories of discourse, where it is argued that through its influence on global coherence, knowledge of genre directly

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Topic-based approaches to global coherencence, the resulting problems (outlined in the last chapter) have led some researchers to approach global coherence in terms of a notion of (discourse) topic relevance. In this chapter I want to survey four recent variants of this approach: Klein and von Stutterheim’s (1987) and von Stutterheim’s (199