TYPES OF INFERENCE IN THE DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article provides a survey of the modern Russian and foreign scientific researches in the sphere of inference and discourse. The author focuses on discussing and analyzing the existing inference classifications with a view to evaluate their universality and to propose her own classification of inference types on the basis of more universal criteria of speech cogitation not associated with a certain product of speech activity. According to the author, such mental operations as comparison, framing, integration, elimination, deduction and induction may serve as a basis to identify the appropriate types of inference. The paper provides a survey of these operations in relation to different utterances and concludes whether these types of mental operations can be considered as a basis of different types of inference.

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• Received: January 16, 2018.
• Published: April 1, 2018.

Keywords

• инференция
• виды инференции
• мышление
• мыслительные операции
• дискурс
• inference
• types of inference
• cogitation
• mental operations
• discourse

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