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Publication details [#14328]

Yaguchi, Michiko. 2001. The function of the non-deictic that in English. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (7) : 1125–1155.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | belief | deixis | iconicity | referentiality

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article claims that non-deictic THAT reflects the speaker's attitude or vantage point. A distinction is made between non-deictic THAT and the construction without THAT which is argued to mirror the structure of human mental activity: analytic processing versus holistic processing.