Framing and Perspectivising in Discourse

In discourse, verbal messages are framed : speakers offer cues on the basis of which hearers are able to anchor the verbal message to the context. Furthermore, speakers cannot contribute to the discourse without at the same time showing their view on the subject matter of the discourse: the content of a discourse is necessarily ‘displayed’ from a certain perspective . Both the framing and perspectivising of verbal messages are not static, but subject to possible changes during the development of