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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to this special issue—David Beaver, Chris Cummins, Constantin Freitag, Andrew Kehler, Craige Roberts, Hannah Rohde, Fabienne Salfner, Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser—all the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and the former DP editor Michael Schober for his support in the preparation of this issue. The work has been supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Grant nr. 01UG0711), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Grant nr. BE 4348/2-1) and the Emerging Group Dynamic Structuring in Language and Communication funded through the Institutional Strategy of the University of Cologne (Grant nr. ZUK 81/1).
Notes
1 A vast bibliography on the concept of QUD and its various applications is maintained at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/∼roberts.21/QUDbib/.
2 For overviews, see, for example, Beaver (Citation1997), Geurts (Citation1999), Sandt (Citation2012).
3 This phrase originates from Grice (Citation1975). Its meaning has been redefined by Potts and comprises, for example, appositives, parenthetical adverbs, and pejoratives.
4 See Benz & Salfner (Citation2013) for a more extensive discussion of the dependencies between QUDs and implicature.
5 Van Kuppevelt (Citation1996) calls it topic–comment structure. However, as focus is now commonly used for the main accent induced by the QUD, we adapted the terminology here.
6 These enrichments are contextual inferences made privately about the speaker's intended meaning. However, Sperber & Wilson do not assume that utterances have well-defined literal meanings, in contrast, for example, to Grice (Citation1989).
7 As mentioned before, one of the problems faced by a question based approach to discourse coherence is that the QUDs are mostly implicit such that they have to be inferred from context. This means also that QUDs cannot be directly used for quantitative measures of discourse coherence. For example, it cannot directly be integrated into the Coh–Metrix tool, that measures coherence on the basis of a variety of cohesion markers (Graesser et al., Citation2004; McNamara et al., Citation2010).