Reference and Referent Accessibility
Editors
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.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 38] 1996. xii, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | p. 7
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Referring Expressions and the +/- Coreference DistinctionMira Ariel | p. 13
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Inferring Identifiability and AccessibilityWallace Chafe | p. 37
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Animacy in Grammar and DiscourseÖsten Dahl and Kari Fraurud | p. 47
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Cognitive Ontology and NP FormKari Fraurud | p. 65
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Accessing Contexts with IntonationThorstein Fretheim | p. 89
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Written Discourse Segmentation: The Funtion of Unstressed Pronouns in Mandarin ChineseRachel Giora and Cher Leng Lee | p. 113
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Relevance Theory Meets the Giveness Hierarchy. An Account of InferrablesJeanette K. Gundel | p. 141
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On Accessibility and CoherenceHelena Halmari | p. 155
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Word Order and Cognitive Status in MandarinNancy Hedberg | p. 179
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The ‘price tag’ on Knowledge Activation in Discourse ProcessingChristina Hellman | p. 193
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Generic Sentences are Topic ConstructionsChungmin Lee | p. 213
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Prosodic Cues to AccessibilityMarianne Mithun | p. 223
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The Game of the NameAnn E. Mulkern | p. 235
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The Interpretation of Empty Pronouns in VietnameseVictoria Rosén | p. 251
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The Effect of Genre on Referential ChoiceJanine Toole | p. 263
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A Bilateral Approach to Giveness: A Hearer-Status Algorithm and a Centering AlgorithmMarilyn A. Walker and Ellen F. Prince | p. 291
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Index of Subjects | p. 307
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Index of Names | p. 313
“Anyone who reads it will appreciate the variety and complexity of the ways and means by which we call things to one another᾿s attention.”
Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
“RRA employs a wealth of examples to provide detailed analyses of the function of various referring expressions.”
Michael Boutin, SIL-Malaysia Branch
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2023. Processing Focus in Turkish. Languages 8:1 ► pp. 38 ff.
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Matsui, Tomoko
1999. On the Role of Context in Relevance-Based Accessibility Ranking of Candidate Referents. In Modeling and Using Context [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1688], ► pp. 228 ff.
Peltola, Rea
2018. Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41:1 ► pp. 39 ff.
SEOANE, ELENA
2009. Syntactic complexity, discourse status and animacy as determinants of grammatical variation in Modern English. English Language and Linguistics 13:3 ► pp. 365 ff.
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Linguistics
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CF: Linguistics
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General