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The discourse marker now: A relevance-theoretic approach

Schourup, Lawrence

Journal of pragmatics, 2011-06, Vol.43 (8), p.2110-2129 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

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  • Título:
    The discourse marker now: A relevance-theoretic approach
  • Autor: Schourup, Lawrence
  • Assuntos: Coherence ; Descriptive studies and applied theories ; Discourse connectives ; Discourse markers ; Discourse particles ; English ; Linguistics ; Now ; Relevance theory ; Semantics and pragmatics
  • É parte de: Journal of pragmatics, 2011-06, Vol.43 (8), p.2110-2129
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  • Descrição: The English discourse marker now has been characterized as a marker of “temporal relations between utterances in a discourse” ( Schiffrin, 1987) and as a “coherence marker” ( Aijmer, 1988). These and similar formulations are founded on the notion that discourse markers primarily serve functions related to local discourse coherence. In the present paper, drawing on relevance theory ( Sperber and Wilson, 1986, 1995), I argue that it is preferable to formulate the meaning of the marker now without reference to coherence or discourse structure. Two possible relevance-theoretic proposals are considered, one (corresponding roughly to a proposal by Quirk et al., 1985) in which now contributes to the development of a higher-level explicature, and one in which now encodes a procedural constraint on context selection. It is argued that the latter proposal has several advantages over the former and is more comprehensive and unified than existing coherence-based formulations.
  • Editor: Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V
  • Idioma: Inglês
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