Primary and secondary discourse connectives

Constraints and preferences

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3553396
AutoresMagdaléna Rysová (0000-0003-1265-6915, Charles University, autor de correspondencia), Kateřina Rysová (0000-0003-4970-5493, Charles University)
Año2018
Volumen130
Páginas16-32
Fecha de publicación2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0378-2166 • E-ISSN: 1879-1387
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.013
OpenAlexW2801262615
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

In this paper, we explore the linguistic factors that influence an author's choice of discourse connectives in the production of a coherent text. We focus on the competition between so-called primary connectives (grammaticalized and mostly one-word expressions such as therefore) and secondary connectives (not yet fully grammaticalized compositional discourse phrases such as for this reason). We attempt to describe the linguistic constraints on and preferences in connective selection. The analysis is based on manually annotated data from the Prague Discourse Treebank 2.0 (PDiT), which contains almost 50000 sentences from Czech newspaper texts. We demonstrate that discourse connectives are used in accordance with the economy principle in language, i.e. authors aim to achieve the maximal result with minimal effort. They most frequently choose short and semantically more generalized primary connectives. However, in cases where the discourse relations can be misunderstood, authors prefer more complex and specific structures

Conjunction (astronomy · Czech · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Newspaper · Parsing · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Treebank · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence