This contribution aims to set out the effects of discourse marking on processing. On the basis of examples from Spanish, we try to show the principles governing the interplay between the procedural meaning of discourse markers (connectives) and the conceptual meaning of the discourse segments linked by them. To determine these principles, two types of experiments were performed: one comparing marked and unmarked utterances, and a second one comparing utterances that activate mental representations that pragmatically match or clash with the instruction encoded by the connective. Evidence shows that (a) discourse marking by means of a connective generates a new route for accessing information; (b) procedural meaning is a definitory feature of connectives; (c) the procedural meaning of connectives introduces asymmetry and rigidity into discourse as to conceptual meanings; (d) in mismatches between the assumption activated by the instructions of a connective and mind-stored assumptions, accommodation processes may take place, which are effortful but seek to guarantee the retrieval of cognitive effects from the utterance.

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程序和概念意义的调整、错配和适应

这篇文章旨在阐明话语标记对加工的影响。在西班牙语示例的基础上，我们试图展示支配话语标记（连接词）的程序意义与由它们连接的话语片段的概念意义之间相互作用的原则。为了确定这些原则，进行了两种类型的实验：一种是比较标记和未标记的话语，另一种是比较激活心理表征的话语，这些心理表征在语用上与连接词编码的指令匹配或冲突。有证据表明（a）通过连接词进行的话语标记产生了一条获取信息的新途径；(b) 程序意义是连接词的一个决定性特征；(c) 连接词的程序意义将不对称和僵化引入到关于概念意义的话语中；(d) 在由连接指令激活的假设与头脑存储的假设之间的不匹配中，可能会发生调节过程，这是费力的但试图保证从话语中检索认知效果。