TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stede, Manfred
A1  - Peldszus, Andreas
T1  - The role of illocutionary status in the usage conditions of causal connectives and in coherence relations
JF  - Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies
N2  - The meaning of linguistic connectives has often been characterized in terms of their position in a bipartite (semantic, pragmatic) or a tripartite (content, epistemic, speech act) structure of domains, depending on what kinds of entities are being connected (largely: propositions or speech acts). This paper argues that a more fine-grained analysis can be achieved by directing some more attention to the characterization of the entities being related. We propose an inventory of categories of illocutionary status for labelling the spans that are being connected. On this basis, the distinction between the content and the epistemic domain, in particular, can be made more explicit. Focusing on the group of causal connectives in German, we conducted a corpus annotation study from which we derived distinct pragmatic 'usage profiles' of the most frequent causal connectives. Finally, we offer some suggestions on the role of illocutions in relation-based accounts of discourse structure.
KW  - Connective
KW  - Coherence relation
KW  - Speech act
KW  - Illocutionary force
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.01.004
SN  - 0378-2166
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
SP  - 214
EP  - 229
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -