Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis

The majority of functional models language, which purport to account for text, do not recognize the distinct dimension corresponding “discourse”, as conceived here. Instead, various semantic-pragmatic aspects use indexical expressions, in particular, tend be uniquely terms textual environment markers involved. Correlatively, invocation “context” such approaches tends limited essentially co-text. But according present study, expressions operate mental discourse representations participants are jointly well severally constructing proceeds. article's aim is show that language crucial ways function, and hence should taken into their modelling. This can only done, it argued, by integrating treatment within a model broader utterance context used, thus permitting dialectic between system-derived properties those emanating from particular uses resources actual communication.