?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Logical+connectives%2C+relationships+and+relevance&rft.creator=Gutt%2C+Dr+Ernst-August&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Syntax&rft.description=This+paper+was+written+in+the+context+of+a+workshop+(held+in+1989)+on+logical+connectives+in+discourse.+It+addresses+difficulties+that+arise+from+attempts+at+analysing+logical+connectives+by+assigning+logical+relations+to+them%2C+taken+from+a+typological+listing.+As+the+workshop+itself+showed%2C+such+attempts+typically+face+the+problem+of+on+the+one+hand+needing+to+be+broad+enough+to+cover+all+the+instances+of+relations+found+in+texts+and+on+the+other+hand+needing+to+be+specific+enough+to+differentiate+types+of+relationships+from+each+other.%0A%0AApplying+the+relevance-theoretic+framework+proposed+by+Sperber+and+Wilson%2C+this+paper+argued+that+the+root+of+the+problem+is+that+(logical)+connectivity+in+discourse+is+not+created+by+a+fixed+set+of+interpropositional+or+rhetorical+relations%2C+but+by+the+search+for+relevance%2C+through+the+inferential+interaction+between+a+given+utterance+and+its+context.+This+explains+the+virtually+unlimited+variety+of+relations+that+can+and+do+arise+in+texts%2C+without+reliance+on+any+defined+set+of+relations.%0A%0AAfter+a+brief+introduction+to+the+relevance-theoretical+framework%2C+the+paper+applies+it+to+the+analysis+of+the+connective+%E2%80%93m+in+Silt%E2%80%99i%2C+an+Ethio-Semitic+language.+It+attempts+to+show+how+the+variety+of+relations+associated+with+this+connective+can+be+explained+in+terms+of+the+interaction+of+a+simple+semantic+property+with+different+pieces+of+contextual+information%2C+accessed+in+the+search+for+relevance.+%0A%0AThe+paper+then+proposes+and+illustrates+three+methods+of+testing+the+validity+of+such+relevance-theoretic+analyses+of+connectivity%2C+two+of+which+can+be+carried+out+experimentally.%0A&rft.publisher=Summer+Institute+of+Linguistics&rft.contributor=Loos%2C+Eugene+E&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3112%2F1%2FLOGCON.htm&rft.identifier=++Gutt%2C+Dr+Ernst-August++(1999)+Logical+connectives%2C+relationships+and+relevance.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3112%2F