Questions and Goals in the Structure of Discourse
Katja Jasinskaja
May 2018
 

This is the introductory chapter of my Habilitation "Questions and Goals in the Structure of Discourse: A new look at coherence relations", in which I outline an approach that uses the notions of question under discussion (QUD) and communicative goal to describe the coherence of discourse. It summarises and connects the findings from nine papers listed below, showing how the properties of different kinds of coherence relations, e.g. Elaboration, Parallel, Contrast, Explanation, can be analysed in terms of questions and goals.

Jasinskaja 2010. Modelling discourse relations by topics and implicatures: The elaboration default. In: Benz, Kühnlein, Sidner (eds.): Constraints in Discourse 2. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 61–79.

Jasinskaja & Zeevat 2009. Explaining conjunction systems: Russian, English, German. In: Riester & Solstad (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13. Vol. 5 of SinSpeC, pp. 231–245.

Jasinskaja & Zeevat 2008. Explaining additive, adversative and contrast marking in Russian and English. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 24, 65–91.

Jasinskaja 2010. Corrective contrast in Russian, in contrast. Oslo Studies in Language 2 (2), 433–466.

Jasinskaja 2012. Correction by adversative and additive markers. Lingua 122, 1899–1918.

Jasinskaja 2013. Corrective elaboration. Lingua 132, 51–66.

Jasinskaja & Karagjosova 2020. Rhetorical relations. In Gutzmann, Matthewson, Meier, Rullmann, Zimmermann (eds.): The Companion to Semantics. Oxford: Wiley.

Jasinskaja, Salfner, Freitag 2017. Discourse-level implicature: A case for QUD. Discourse Processes 54 (3), 239–258.

Jasinskaja 2016. Not at issue any more. Manuscript. U of Cologne.

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keywords: discourse coherence, coherence relations, questions under discussion, communicative goals, elaboration, explanation, parallel, contrast, correction, semantics
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