Open AccessAn argument for definitional adequacy of RESULT and NARRATION
Author(s) -
Daniel Altshuler,
Károly Varasdi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v25i0.3049
Subject(s) - narrative , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , argument (complex analysis) , linguistics , epistemology , discourse analysis , sociology , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , biochemistry , statistics , chemistry
Discourse relations link two different discourse units into a compound unit, and it is the presence of such relations that gives a discourse coherence. For example, the relations RESULT and NARRATION are responsible for the perceived "narrative progression" of the events described in the discourse. Building on Hobbs (1985) and Kehler (2002), we use the definitions of RESULT and NARRATION to derive constraints that pertain to the internal structure of discourse units, and we argue that the plausibility of these constraints lends a new type of support for the definitions that we propose.