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Publication details [#56245]

Sweetser, Eve, José Sanders and Ted Sanders. 2012. Responsible subjects and discourse causality. How mental spaces and perspective help identifying subjectivity in Dutch backward causal connectives. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (2) : 191–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

causality | connective | mental space | perspective | subjectivity

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses the the Basic Communicative Spaces Network (BCSN – Sanders et al., 2009), which explains decisive semantic–pragmatic features of causal relations, expressed by frequently employed Dutch causal connectives.