A Presuppositional Account of Causal and Temporal Interpretations of and

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Blochowiak, Joanna
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Despite extensive studies, the issue concerning the pragmatic mechanisms leading to causal and temporal interpretations of and remains problematic and has not yet been addressed in its totality within one framework. This paper proposes a solution based on presuppositional mechanisms built into a comprehensive analysis that accounts for both the various interpretations of and-sentences as well as those of other types of sentences involving similar interpretations. This account is a specific part of a unified solution to the knotty problem of different manners of conveying causal and temporal relations both with connectives and also with juxtaposed sentences. It is formulated within the Relevance Nomological Model which provides a general framework for the analysis of causal constructions such as the connective because and why-questions.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	107
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/s11245-014-9289-9
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/files/6314/3566/0702/art3A10.10072Fs11245-014-9289-9.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-014-9289-9
Volume Number	35
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article