Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

“This book sheds a welcome new light on the study of temporal reference at the macro-levels (e.g. the discursive and the cognitive level) and offers a useful synthesis of various perspectives related to the study of language.” (Jianhua Zhang, Pragmatics and Society, Vol. 11 (3), 2020)

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Formal Semantic-discursive and Pragmatic Assessment of Time.- Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Verbal Tenses.- Experimental Study Using Annotation Experiments.- A Pragmatic Model of Temporal Cohesive Ties.- Temporal Coherence.- Application to Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation.- Conclusion.