Reference : from conventions to pragmatics /
"This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fiel...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2023]
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| ISBN: | 9789027254672 9027254672 |
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Table of Contents:
- Speakers, addressees and the referential process: A pragmatic approach / Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
- Part I. New insights into referential conventions
- Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German: Experimental results and theoretical modeling / Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi
- Is ambient it truly non-referential? / Élise Mathurin
- Lions , flowers and the Romans : Exception management with generic and other count plurals / Laure Gardelle
- Genre and reference chains: From a global to a local approach / Dominique Dias
- A linear approach of chain composition / Silvia Federzoni, Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Cécile Fabre
- When referents are seen and heard: A comparative study of constructed action in the discourse of LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) signers and Belgian French speakers / Sébastien Vandenitte
- Part II. From conventions to pragmatics: Argumentative contexts
- Human collective nouns and plural definite noun phrases: Semantic and argumentative perspectives on plural reference in French / Michelle Lecolle
- Electric vehicles in the press: Referential expressions as carriers of ideology / Elodie Vargas and Jérémy Machy
- Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice? / Dwi Noverini Djenar
- Part III. From conventions to pragmatics: Creative uses
- Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlines / Stephen Skalicky and Victoria Chen
- Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronyms / Samia Ounoughi
- Referring to an avenue as an 'artery' (artère) in French: From lexical signification to referential and discursive issues / Thomas Bertin
- Part IV. From conventions to pragmatics: Speaker adjustments in interaction
- Who creates reference? Reference as an interactive procedure in discourse / Manfred Consten
- "peut-être on peut improviser un peu": The emergence of joint construction of reference in a card game situation / Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre, Elizaveta Chernyshova, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Carole Etienne, Lydia Heiden and Laurène Smykowski
- Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language: The case of AND / Caroline David, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Kerry Mullan, Christine Béal and Cécile Poussard
- The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factors / Marine Le Mené, Anne Salazar Orvig, Christine Da Silva-Genest and Haydée Marcos.