Reference and Referent Accessibility
Published on 26. June 1996
Book
Hardback
313 pages
978-1-55619-331-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
705 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-331-6 (9781556193316)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Referring Expressions and the +/- Coreference Distinction (by Ariel, Mira); 3. Inferring Identifiability and Accessibility (by Chafe, Wallace); 4. Animacy in Grammar and Discourse (by Dahl, Osten); 5. Cognitive Ontology and NP Form (by Fraurud, Kari); 6. Accessing Contexts with Intonation (by Fretheim, Thorstein); 7. Written Discourse Segmentation: The Funtion of Unstressed Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese (by Giora, Rachel); 8. Relevance Theory Meets the Giveness Hierarchy. An Account of Inferrables (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 9. On Accessibility and Coherence (by Halmari, Helena); 10. Word Order and Cognitive Status in Mandarin (by Hedberg, Nancy); 11. The 'price tag' on Knowledge Activation in Discourse Processing (by Hellman, Christina); 12. Generic Sentences are Topic Constructions (by Lee, Chungmin); 13. Prosodic Cues to Accessibility (by Mithun, Marianne); 14. The Game of the Name (by Mulkern, Ann E.); 15. The Interpretation of Empty Pronouns in Vietnamese (by Rosen, Victoria); 16. The Effect of Genre on Referential Choice (by Toole, Janine); 17. A Bilateral Approach to Giveness: A Hearer-Status Algorithm and a Centering Algorithm (by Walker, Marilyn A.); 18. Index of Subjects; 19. Index of Names