THE ROLE OF COHESIVE DEVICES AS TEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS ON RELEVANCE: A DISCOURSE-AS-PROCESS VIEW

Drawing on Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986; Blakemore, 1987, 1992) and taking insights from Sinclair's (1993) model of written text structure, the purpose of this paper is to
 show how and which cohesive features play an important role in helping the reader perceive relevance...

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Main Author: Ana L. Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2003-05-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48571