INFERENCE IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

INFERENCE IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Author:  G.A. Kalmykova

Affiliation:  Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University Named After I. Ulyanov

Abstract: 
Inferential patterns are cognitive patterns in their nature. On their basis causal relations are formed. We can define inferential patterns only due to discourse analysis, which includes contextual information and basic discourse characteristics.

Keywords:  inference, pattern, causal relations, discourse analysis