Reference
From conventions to pragmatics
This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields (formal and theoretical linguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, interactional linguistics, natural language processing), in a variety of verbal and non-verbal languages (English, German, different varieties of French, Indonesian, French Belgian Sign Language) and in a diversity of contexts (the coining of names, language acquisition, second language learning, and various genres such as news articles, narratives, satire or game playing). The volume is meant as a series of thought-provoking studies which place speakers and addressees at the core of the referential act, thus providing evidence on how they negotiate and adjust, depending on the context.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Speakers, addressees and the referential process: A pragmatic approachLaure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin | pp. 1–24
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Part I. New insights into referential conventions
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Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German: Experimental results and theoretical modelingManfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi | pp. 27–51
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Is ambient it truly non-referential?Élise Mathurin | pp. 53–70
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Lions, flowers and the Romans: Exception management with generic and other count pluralsLaure Gardelle | pp. 71–87
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Genre and reference chains: From a global to a local approachDominique Dias | pp. 89–106
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A linear approach of chain compositionSilvia Federzoni, Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Cécile Fabre | pp. 107–126
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When referents are seen and heard: A comparative study of constructed action in the discourse of LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) signers and Belgian French speakersSébastien Vandenitte | pp. 127–149
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Part II. From conventions to pragmatics: Argumentative contexts
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Human collective nouns and plural definite noun phrases: Semantic and argumentative perspectives on plural reference in FrenchMichelle Lecolle | pp. 153–170
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Electric vehicles in the press: Referential expressions as carriers of ideologyElodie Vargas and Jérémy Machy | pp. 171–184
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Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice?Dwi Noverini Djenar | pp. 185–210
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Part III. From conventions to pragmatics: Creative uses
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Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlinesStephen Skalicky and Victoria Chen | pp. 213–231
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Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronymsSamia Ounoughi | pp. 233–248
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Referring to an avenue as an ‘artery’ (artère) in French: From lexical signification to referential and discursive issuesThomas Bertin | pp. 249–266
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Part IV. From conventions to pragmatics: Speaker adjustments in interaction
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Who creates reference? Reference as an interactive procedure in discourseManfred Consten | pp. 269–285
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“peut-être on peut improviser un peu”: The emergence of joint construction of reference in a card game situationHeike Baldauf-Quilliatre, Elizaveta Chernyshova, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Carole Etienne, Lydia Heiden and Laurène Smykowski | pp. 287–304
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Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language: The case of ANDCaroline David, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Kerry Mullan, Christine Béal and Cécile Poussard | pp. 305–322
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The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factorsMarine Le Mené, Anne Salazar Orvig, Christine Da Silva-Genest and Haydée Marcos | pp. 323–345
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Index | pp. 347–349
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics