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Coherence in the interpretation of discourse Coherence in discourse Definiton Coherence: what makes a text semantically meaningful. (Wikipedia) The assumption of coherence : In addition to our knowledge of sentential structure, we also have a knowledge of other standard formats in which information is conveyed. We also rely on some principle that, although there may be no formal linguistic links connecting contiguous linguistic strings, the fact of their contiguity leads us to interpret them as connected. We readily fill in any connections which are required. The assumption of coherence will only produce one particular interpretation in which the elements of the message are seen to be connected, with or without overt linguistic connections between those elements. The most important is the reader’s (or hearer’s) effort to arrive at the writer’s (or speaker’s) intended meaning in producing a linguistic message. Self Employed Upholsterer Free estimates. 3325862. Process of interpreting a speaker’s /writer’s intended meaning in producing discourse 1.Employing principles of analogy (Chapter 2) 2.Considering the regularities of discourse structure (Chapter 3 and 4) 3.Making use of general features of context (Chapter 2) 4Taking local interpretation (Chapter 2) 5.Taking into account of regular features of information structure (Chapter 5) 6.Computing the communicative function 7.Using knowledge of the world 8.Determing the inferences to be made Computing the communicative function Labov(1970) argues that there are ‘rules of interpretation which relate what is said to what is done’ and it is on the basis of such social, but not linguistic, rules that we interpret some conversational sequences as coherent and others as non-coherent. Labov points out that the recognition of coherence or incoherence in conversational sequences is not based on a relationship between utterances, but ‘between the actions