%0 Journal Article
%A Escandell Vidal, María Victoria
%A Vilinbakhova, Elena 
%T Tautologies with proper names in discourse: Rhetorical relations and interpretation
%D 2020
%@ 0271-5309
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98688
%X In the literature on tautologies it is assumed that the context plays a major role in their interpretation. We provide an analysis of contexts in which tautologies are encountered in the framework of the theories of discourse structure. We examine a collection of tautologies made from proper names (TPNs) referring to famous personalities, and show that, contrary to the predictions made in previous analyses, i) TPNs can receive a wide variety of interpretations and hence can participate in any kind of rhetorical relation; and ii) TPNs are not necessarily specialized in the evocation of an evaluative attitude
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