Reduction and Contextualization in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
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Abstract
Discourse analysis is built on a premise:
Discourse analysts draw a conclusion from that premise:
Discourse analysis has an obvious candidate for the status of larger unit: discourse (or text for the written language approaches). Yet it does not seem that discourse is in any way a well-defined entity and a unit which may be circumscribed through linguistic means. We will come back to that question in the next section.
- (1)
Syntax and semantics are not sufficient to account for linguistic interpretation because their domain is the sentence.
- (2)
To account for linguistic interpretation, it is necessary to have a unit larger than the sentence.
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