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Publication details [#11859]

Giora, Rachel. 1997. Discourse Coherence and Theory of Relevance: Stumbling Blocks in Search of a Unified Theory. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (1) : 17–34. 18 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | intuition | pragmatic theory | relevance | well-formedness

Person as a subject

Sperber, D. | Wilson, D.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that relevance theory does not fully explain human communication principles, since it cannot account for text well-formedness (discourse coherence) and speaker's intuitions.