Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The central issue of this paper is the relation of discourse to its contextual background.First I will outline the concept of context in a cognitive pragmatic approach, and then I will explore how mental processes get involved with the "interpersonal plane of discourse" (the term is Sinclair's, 1983).The extracts used for analysis were selected from recordings of natural conversations on BBC Radio, and they are meant to reveal linguistic and pragmatic factors that I assume to be determining components of the verbal interaction of the two participants at the current moment of the discourse.My research was qualitative, and the paper is basically expository, aiming at the observation of the emergence of discourse coherence in the light of relevance.
Source: Eger Journal of English Studies
Author: Ágnes Herczeg-Deli
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2563185757