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  <Title>On classifying connectives and coherence relations</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="34" end_page="34" type="concl">
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Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, I have tried to show that the classification of coherence relations and connectives into discourse domains is a complex matter in which different elements play a role: the connectives themselves whose meaning can be explicated on the basis of a substitution test and/or paraphrase test; the underlying meaning of the relation (deductive or abductive), which in the case of causals seems to play a restrictive role on the connectives; other features in the fragments like the presence or absence of perspectivising elements. Together these elements co-determine the categorisation of the coherence relation into one of the discourse domains.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In my view, some of these elements have a higher weight than others in the classification: 1) the distinction between deductive and abductive reasoning enables to sort out the epistemic-abductive class straightforwardly.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> 2) Paraphrasing should separate the speech-act relations from the other interpersonal and ideational relations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> 3) The distinction between epistemic-deductive and ideational relations would be based on perspectivising elements (perspective switch, explicitness of the perspective and type of perspective).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> 4) The substitution test should be useful once the categories have been established in order to come to finer distinctions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> The suitability of these different tests will appear from their confrontation with real texts.</Paragraph>
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