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Wirth, Jessica R. 1977. On the necessity of discourse grammars. Centrum 5 (1) : 43–57.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse grammar

Annotation

It is argued that conversational principles (of a Gricean sort), though necessary, are not sufficient to account for certain facts about discourse, and that grammars of discourse are necessary.