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Publication details [#13992]

Wilson, Deirdre. 1998. Discourse, coherence and relevance: A reply to Rachel Giora. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (1) : 57–74.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | intuition | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper contends Giora's claim that relevance theory cannot account for text well-formedness and speaker's intuitions. Following a theoretical section, it is shown how relevance theory tackles intuitions of local and global coherence in comparison with Giora's coherence-based account.