Inferring from topics

L'A. propose une definition alternative des echelles linguistiques permettant de rendre compte de la generation des implicatures scalaires. Cette proposition est etablie dans le cadre d'une approche de la structure du discours liee au topique, expliquant la coherence structurale dans le discours en termes de questions implicites et explicites formant le topic. L'A. montre qu'en reliant les echelles linguistiques aux questions formant le topic, il est possible de calculer les inferences scalaires associees aux differents niveaux de discours et de depasser l'approche standard en theorie pragmatique consistant a induire localement les inferences scalaires

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