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Reference and Referent Accessibility
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Pages: 314
Authors: Thorstein Fretheim
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretatio
The Oxford Handbook of Reference
Language: en
Pages: 640
Authors: Jeanette Gundel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language
Reference Without Referents
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Richard Mark Sainsbury
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

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Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language. This book sets out a new approach to the concept, which promises to bring to an end some long-standing d
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Kate Scott
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A relevance-theoretic account of reference, with a focus on its role in creating stylistic, attitudinal and emotional effects.
Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Talmy Givón
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately ch