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Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence

The Pragmatics of Discourse Type

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  1. Christoph Unger
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 1-22

  3. Global Coherence and Genre

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Global coherence and global discourse relations

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 25-45

    3. Topic-based approaches to global coherence

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 46-71

    4. Global coherence and grounding in discourse

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 72-103

  4. Expectations of Relevance and Genre

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Expectations of relevance

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 107-142

    3. Expectations of relevance, implicit questioning in discourse, and genre

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 143-173

    4. Empirical issues in global coherence and text typology

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 174-197

  5. Genre in Inferential Theories of Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Genre in code-based theories of communication

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 201-223

    3. Conversational maxims and genre

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 224-252

    4. A re-analysis of genre and its implications for pragmatics

      • Christoph Unger
      Pages 253-268

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-308
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'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

About the author

CHRISTOPH UNGER has been working with SIL International since 1992 on linguistic fieldwork and the training and supervision of translators. His research focuses on pragmatic theory and its implications for natural language semantics and cross-cultural communication, particularly translation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence

  • Book Subtitle: The Pragmatics of Discourse Type

  • Authors: Christoph Unger

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288201

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8533-0Published: 28 November 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28820-1Published: 28 November 2006

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2576

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 308

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics

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