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Reference and referent accessibility / edited by Thorstein Fretheim, Jeanette K. Gundel.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Pragmatics Conference (4th : 1993 : Kobe-shi, Japan)
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 38.
- Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reference (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Reference (Linguistics).
- Language arts--Congresses.
- Language arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.
- Contents:
- REFERENCE AND REFERENT ACCESSIBILITY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Referring Expressionsand the +/- Coreference Distinction; Inferring Identifiability and Accessibility; Animacy in grammar and discourse; Cognitive Ontology and NP Form; Accessing Contexts With Intonation; Written Discourse Segmentation:The Function of Unstressed Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese; Relevance Theory Meets the Givenness Hierarchy An Account of Inferrables; On Accessibility and Coreference; Word Order and Cognitive Status in Mandarin
- The 'O Price Tag' on Knowledge Activation in Discourse ProcessingGeneric Sentences Are Topic Constructions; Prosodic Cues to Accessibility; The Game of the Name; The Interpretation of Empty Pronouns in Vietnamese; The Effect of Genre on Referential Choice; A Bilateral Approach to Givenness: A Hearer-Status Algorithm and a Centering Algorithm; Index of Subjects; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Based on papers presented at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22206-X
- 9786613222060
- 90-272-8269-2
- OCLC:
- 752208637
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