Article published In: The interaction between context and grammar in Functional Discourse Grammar
Edited by Nuria Alturo, Evelien Keizer and Lluís Payrató
[Pragmatics 24:2] 2014
► pp. 275–296
Grammar, context and the hearer
A proposal for an addressee-oriented model of Functional Discourse Grammar
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Published online: 1 June 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.24.2.05gio
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.24.2.05gio
This paper addresses two issues related to the overarching question of how to integrate Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) into a wider theory of verbal interaction (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008: 1). First, it proposes an addressee-oriented version of the Grammatical Component, presenting a first attempt to develop an FDG account of language comprehension; second, it aims to shed light on the interaction between the Grammatical and Contextual Components of FDG by exploring this crucial aspect of verbal communication from the perspective of the addressee.
Keywords: Functional Discourse Grammar, Discourse, Context, Language parsing, Inference
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