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Publication details [#57479]

Saussure, Louis de. 2013. Background relevance. Journal of Pragmatics 59 (1) : 178–198.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

given information | inference | persuasion | presupposition | relevance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article expands the presupposition notion to inferences presenting grounds for relevance or meaningfulness; their persuasive power is suggested to be linked to the fact that given and allegedly given information are usually processed same wise.