What Situational and Discourse Relations Entail
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چکیده
An account of discourse connectives is given which focusses on their entailments. It covers uses of such connectives both to express discourse-internal situational relations and to express meta-level discourse relations. Representing the second of these involves explicitly introducing utterance mood into the logical form. The entailments of both situational and discourse uses of connectives are captured in meaning postulates. Those for situational relations concern only entities in the common ground and are presuppositional. Those for discourse relations may also refer, beyond the common ground, to the beliefs and attitudes of speaker and hearer, and they are informative rather than presuppositional. We suggest that in many cases the situa-tional and discourse interpretations of a single relation have extremely similar properties, and that this shows up when the meaning postulates for the relation are elaborated.
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