On Text Coherence via Frame-Based Presuppositions

Authors

  • Hranush Tovmasyan Chair of Linguistics and Theory of Communication, Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2016.12.2.049

Keywords:

frame, frame-based presuppositions, text coherence, linguistic picture of the world, presupposition base, consciousness, speaking individual

Abstract

The article is an attempt to shed light on one of the most interesting issues on the crossroads of psycholinguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics – framebased semantics and frame-based presuppositions as text coherence means. The findings of the article allow of the following statement: the text is implicitly bound via complex mental structures – frames – by virtue of their hierarchic, presuppositional structure. The appearance of a frame in the context implicitly introduces pieces of information – presuppositions – from its information slots. The presuppositions structured in the slots of the frame create predictable associations of words and word-combinations on the surface structure of the text, thus securing its coherence.

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Published

2016-10-17

How to Cite

Tovmasyan, H. (2016). On Text Coherence via Frame-Based Presuppositions. Armenian Folia Anglistika, 12(2 (16), 49–62. https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2016.12.2.049

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Linguistics