This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee''s understanding of the communicator''s intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, it argues that the key to a solution lies in the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance proposed by Sperber & Wilson.
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