Relevancijos teorija ir diskurso jungtukų bei jungiamųjų žodžių pragmatika

Abstract

Connectives are very frequent words. According to the data of the Current Lithuanian Language Corpus, the most of them fall within one hundred of the most common words in the frequency word list of the Lithuanian language (the most common Lithuanian word is and). The article focuses on discourse connectives. According to the semantic classification they are classified as coordinating conjunctions. As discourse connectives establish semantic ties and are interpreted according to the context, the article aims at analysing what pragmatic functions they perform and how much influence has their own semantic meaning. According to the relevance theory, the discourse connectives perform the functions of contextual implication, strengthening, and negation. The utterance is relevant, when the before mentioned contextual implications are derived. The article discusses the concept of relevance and other theoretical aspects.