Publications
Publication details [#8057]
Rochester, Sherry R. and J.R. Martin. 1977. The act of referring: The speaker's use of noun phrases to instruct the listener. In Freedle, Roy O., ed. Discourse production and comprehension. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 245–269.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
On the speaker's abiltiy to guide listeners to select precise referents of noun phrases. This 'art of referring' is also called, following M.A.K. Halliday, R. Hasan (1976: 'Cohesion in English'), 'phoricity'.