期刊名称：Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique
电子版ISSN：1963-1723
出版年度：2020
期号：26
页码：1-27
DOI：10.4000/discours.10848
出版社：Laboratoire LATTICE, UMR 8094 ENS/CNRS
摘要：It is generally assumed that coherence relies on building discourse relations across utterances. Speakers have several options when they express a discourse relation: they can leave it implicit, or make it explicit (e.g., Taboada, 2009), usually through a “connective”. There are many connectives to choose from, and a lot of them have similar meanings and can be used in different relations. Although not all connectives can go with every relation, there is one that is particularly frequent and compatible with very many discourse relations, namely and . Besides its core meaning of addition, and has been found to co-occur with relations as varied as temporal sequence, specification, consequence, even concession (Crible, 2017; Gómez Txurruka, 2003; Kitis, 2000; Luscher & Moeschler, 1990; Prasad et al., 2008; Spooren, 1997). Converging evidence suggests that and is not very informative in terms of the instruction it provides for discourse interpretation and processing: and is often omitted from translations (Crible et al., 2019); it yields longer reading times than more specific connectives (Cain & Nash, 2011); it is produced more frequently by children than by adults (Cain & Nash, 2011; Spooren, 1997). As such, and is not an ideal choice in all contexts, from the perspective of optimal communication.
其他摘要：Speakers have several options when they express a discourse relation: they can leave it implicit, or make it explicit, usually through a connective. Although not all connectives can go with every relation, there is one that is particularly frequent and compatible with very many discourse relations, namely and. In this paper, we investigate the effect of discourse relation type and text genre on the production and perception of underspecified relations of contrast and consequence signalled by and. We combine a corpus study of spoken English, a production experiment and a perception experiment in order to test two hypotheses: (1) and is more compatible with relations of consequence than of contrast, due to factors of cognitive complexity and conceptual differences; (2) and is more compatible with informal than formal genres, because of requirements of recipient design. The three studies partially converge in identifying a stable effect of relation type and genre on the production and perception of underspecified relations of consequence and contrast marked by and.
