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Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
Roger Van de Velde
[Pragmatics & Beyond V:2] 1984
► pp. v–vii

Table of contents

0. Introduction1

1. On Syntactic Processing5

1.1. Introduction5

1.2. Cohesion as syntactic organization6

1.3. Cohesion as a conspicuous companion9

1.4. On the limited role of cohesion10

1.5. Coherence as semantic organization12

1.6. Coherence as a dominating companion15

1.7. Cohesion as a deficient companion18

1.8. Cohesion as a misleading companion20

1.9. On inferential discourse processing and rational argumentation22

1.10. Summary25

2. On Semantic Processing27

2.1. Introduction27

2.2. On ILRRR information28

2.3. On ILRRR inferences repairing defective cohesion29

2.4. On ILRRR inferences impeding cohesion31

2.5. On the indispensable role of ILRRR inferences33

2.6. On initial KUIP conditions36

2.7. On semantic-logical inferences38

2.8. On the rational underpinning of discourse processing39

2.9. On the indispensability of coherence42

2.10. Summary45

3. On Action Processing47

3.1. Introduction47

3.2. On action and communication48

3.3. On cotextual information about actions49

3.4. On contextual information about actions51

3.5. On the hypothetical reconstruction of action co(n)texts56

3.6. On multileveled action processing60

3.7. Summary64

4. On Disordered Processing65

4.1. Introduction65

4.2. On disordered syntactic processing66

4.3. On disordered semantic processing68

4.4. On disordered action processing72

4.5. Summary78

5. Conclusion79

References91

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