The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence

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The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence is written by Helmut Gruber and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027269238 (ISBN 10) and 9789027269232 (ISBN 13).

Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.