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Publication details [#1763]

Brockway, Diane. 1981. Semantic constraints on relevance. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 57–78.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

connective | relevance

Annotation

B. claims that there are words which indicate that the utterances that contain them are relevant and words which impose constraints on the way in which their associated utterances are relevant. Words such as 'after all' and other connectives are said toimpose semantic constraints on the pragmatic interpretation of the utterances they connect.