TWO MARKED TYPES OF DISCOURSE ANAPHORA IN ENGLISH

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  • AN EXTENSION OF LEVINSON'S (2000) ACCOUNT

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This article is concerned with the pragmatic conditions under which a given nominal expression can be used anaphorically. Levinson (2000) proposes to account for the conditions in terms of what he calls“the general anaphora pattern, ”but his account does not fully apply to lexical noun phrases in anaphoric use. Levinson's idea is extended into a model in which a given nominal may obtain anaphoric function through its role in the context. This model works with a pragmatic heuristic based on contextual part-whole relations. It is shown that the heuristic accommodates various types of lexical noun phrases used as anaphoric devices.

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  • ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

    ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 22 (2), 271-298, 2005

    The English Linguistic Society of Japan

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  • CRID
    1390001205327316096
  • NII Article ID
    130003650915
  • DOI
    10.9793/elsj1984.22.271
  • ISSN
    18843107
    09183701
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • JaLC
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