Title: A Study on Pragmatic-Cognitive Constraints of Discourse Markers
Abstract: Discourse markers are widely used in verbal communication.Based on the Relevance Theory,discourse markers can play the role of pragmatic restriction in the process of utterance interpretation.Discourse markers can constrain the selection of cognitive context and make hearer pursue the relevance between discourse and cognitive context so as to realize the contextual effect anticipated by speaker and successful communication.Discourse markers are used to restrict the cognitive pragmatic process through their ostensive relation.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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