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Autor/in | Nash-Webber, Bonnie Lynn |
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Institution | Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading.; Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA. |
Titel | Inference in an Approach to Discourse Anaphora. Technical Report No. 77. |
Quelle | (1978), (30 Seiten)
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Cognitive Processes; Comprehension; Discourse Analysis; Language Research; Psycholinguistics; Reading Comprehension; Reading Research |
Abstract | Inference is discussed as a factor in the derivation of non-explicit antecedents and referents for three types of discourse anaphora: definite pronouns, "one"-anaphora, and verb phrase ellipsis. This derivation process is seen as being part of the normal process of text-understanding. It is claimed that the use of non-explicit antecedents and referents for anaphora depends on a contract between speaker and listener. This contract requires that if the speaker uses an anaphoric expression whose antecedent or referent was inferentially derived, the listener both can and will make the same inference. Insofar as it is shown that many of these inferences rely on one of the few things explicitly available to both speaker and listener alike--i.e., the form of the utterance--the identification of a sentence's formal properties become a matter of cognitive concern. (Author) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |