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Publication details [#10563]

Caron, Jean. 1987. Processing connectives and the pragmatics of discourse. In Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertucelli-Papi, eds. The pragmatic perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. John Benjamins. pp. 567–580.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

connective | context dependence | meaning | pragmatic function

Annotation

Report on some experiments showing that the primary function of connectives might be of a pragmatic rather than a semantic nature, the semantic properties being understood as contextually determined effects of that pragmatic function.