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Publication details [#2641]
Dijk, Teun A. Van. 1977. Text and context: Explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. Longman. xv + 261 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
D. discusses semantic and pragmatic aspects of the linguistic study of discourse. He argues that there are pragmatic connectives as well as semantic ones, and that a discourse has to be both semantically and pragmatically coherent. He postulates the existence of macro speech acts.
