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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.69.2

Linguistic Conventions or Open-Ended Reasoning: Some Questions for Una Stojnić

Peter Pagin orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-5250-1881 ; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden


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Abstract

This short paper has the character of a critical notice of Una Stojnić’s book Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence (Stojnić 2021). It is mainly concerned with Stojnić’s strong claim that linguistic phenomena related to prominence and coherence, in particular the interpretation of pronouns, are governed by linguistic conventions and are not pragmatic in nature. On these matters, my views are opposite to Stojnić’s.

Keywords

Coherence; convention; pragmatics; prominence; pronouns.

Hrčak ID:

312455

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/312455

Publication date:

28.12.2023.

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