| dcterms.abstract | This paper explores the pragmatic routines that occur in clause chaining. It
demonstrates that the tense-aspect dependency markers in Toposa texts not
only combine chained clauses with an initial clause, but also guide the
audience to understand information in texts as foregrounded. The
understanding of which information is foregrounded is achieved through
pragmatic routines that cut the comprehension process short because of
frequently encountered inferential processes occurring in repeatedly
accessed contextual environments. The pragmatic routines are explained as
part of the relevance-theoretic comprehension heuristic. It will also be
shown how these routines apply to narratives, and procedural texts.
Keywords
clause chaining, procedural-conceptual meaning, pragmatic routines,
foreground/background information, Toposa | |
