Relevance Relations in Discourse: A Study with Special Reference to Sissala

by Regina Blass

Book Overview

Using data from Sissala, a previously unanalyzed language, this book shows that the analysis of text and discourse is best approached from a cognitive rather than a strictly linguistic point of view. In two introductory chapters, Regina Blass argues that Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory, a general account of communication and cognition, sheds more light on conversational data than do alternative linguistic approaches based on such notions as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521385156
• ISBN13: 9780521385152
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"