A Study of Coherence in the Interpretation of Discourse

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

I have tried to assemble some of the ingredients which would be required to construct an account of how people use languape to communicate with each other. I have paid particular attention to ingredients which are dominant in the literature.
I have only discussed some of the relevant questions. We have largely ignored many aspects of the language of discourse which receive attention in mainstream linguistics, I have concentrated on questions relating to reference and to the general issues of coherence and relvance.
Above all, I hope that the analysis of discourse, undertaken in the manner presented in this thesis, will not only provide the reader with insights into the workings of his own language, but also encourage him to think afresh about the nature of that complex cognitive and social phenomenon : 'discourse'

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 〈目次〉
• 1.1. Coherence in Discourse
• 1.2. Compting Communictive function
• 1.3. Speech Acts
• 1.4. Using Knowledge of the world
• 1.5. Topdown and Botton up Processing
• 1.6. Representing Backgraund Knowledge
• 1.7. Determining the Inference to be made
• 1.8. Inferenes as Missing Links
• 1.9. Inferences as Non-automatic connec tions
• 1.10. Inferences as Filing in Gaps or Dision tinuities in Interpretation
• 1.11. Conclusion