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Beaugrande, Robert-Alain De. 1980. The pragmatics of discourse planning. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (1) : 15–42.
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Article in journal
Publication language
English
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The author considers as promising approaches for pragmatics: conceptual dependency theory, plan theory, problem-solving theory, procedural theory of discourse. The paper offers the framework of a natural language pragmatics along these lines and appliesthe resulting theory to a study of a scene from a stage play by Sidney Howard. It is shown that the actions and discourse actions of the scene are indeed generated by the characters' plans and goals.