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Ferreira, Fernanda, Patrick Sturt and Derya Çokal. 2018. Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse. Discourse Processes 55 (3) : 272–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Two experiments examined the supposition that anaphors and demonstratives notify distinct procedural directives: the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus; the demonstrative this leads the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation.