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Publication details [#31850]

Ehrlich, Susan. 1990. Referential linking and the interpretation of tense. Journal of Pragmatics 14 (1) : 57–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse analysis | interpretation | reference | tense

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the role of discourse context in the interpretation of tense in English narrative discourse. It is demonstrated that the cohesive device of referential linking between sentences plays an important role in the interpretation of tense.