Publications

Publication details [#57433]

Scott, Kate. 2013. Pragmatically motivated null subjects in English: A relevance theory perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 53 (1) : 68–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | interpretation | pragmatics | pronoun | relevance theory

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article discusses how pragmatically motivated null subjects in the non-null subject English language is not surprising from a relevance-theoretic perspective on utterance production and interpretation.