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The papers in this volume are concered with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics covered include: the interpretation of coreferential versus 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 Fourth International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan in 1993.

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Author:   Thorstein Fretheim (University of Trontheim) ,  Jeanette K. Gundel (University of Minnesota)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   38
Weight:   0.705kg
ISBN:  

9789027250506

ISBN 10:   9027250502
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   26 June 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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