All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. Causal connectives and causative auxiliaries a
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The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitiv
The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of lingu
Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the meanings of the words and t