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Anaphora and Metarepresentation : Accessibility of Contextual Assumptions
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| Abstract | It is evident that according to the types of anaphoric expressions the accessibility of contextual assumptions enabling the identification of a referent differs. This article examines a different leve...l of the referential accessibility of anaphoric expressions in terms of the availability of contextual assumptions. In the relevance-theoretic framework, an anaphoric expression undergoes a specific type of saturation in the sense that its referent is found in the representation of a representation the hearer accesses as the target of anaphora resolution. I conclude that the difference in the referential accessibility of anaphoric expressions and in processing effort stem from degrees of interpretive resemblance between a source representation and the representation of that representation. However, anaphoric expressions with lower accessibility to the referent provide an extra cognitive effect, being consistent with a presumption of relevance.show more |
| Table of Contents | Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Suggestions from Relevance Theory 3. Accessibility and Degrees of Interpretive Resemblance 4. Concluding Remarks |
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| Created Date | 2012.08.16 |
| Modified Date | 2023.11.01 |