Abstract
In the previous chapters I have argued that the notion of global coherence cannot be made precise, and that it had better be abandoned. I also developed an alternative account of the intuitions which the notion of global coherence was designed to explain, based on the creation and maintenance of expectations of relevance in ostensive communication, and argued that this alternative account is empirically adequate for some cognitive aspects of the theory of genre. It remains to be shown that this relevance-theoretic account can also account for a number of linguistic data which have been (or might be) claimed to show the influence of genre on the semantics of certain linguistic markers or constructions. This is the burden of the present chapter. My central concern is with whether discourse type considerations directly affect the semantics of verb forms. The relevant data were introduced in Chapter 4; in Section 7.2 I suggest a relevance-theoretic account. Section 7.3 discusses the use of (Koine) Greek participium coniunctum in various discourse types, Section 7.4 anaphora in different discourse types.
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