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Publication details [#22997]

Black, Alex. 1988. The syntax of conversational coherence. Discourse Processes 11 (4) : 433–455.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | conversational organization

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

B. argues for a systemic model of conversational coherence, which is seen as a process of oscillations between periods of local coherence and incoherence, maximizing the global coherence of the conversation.