Bridging and relevance
While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of br...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] :
J. Benjamins Pub
c2000.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Pragmatics & beyond. New series ; 76. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3151957x*spi |
| Sumario: | While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of bridging. The book demonstrates that when encountering a referring expression, the hearer is able to choose a set of contextual assumptions intended by the speaker in a principled way, out of all the assumptions possibly available to him. It claims more specifically that the use of context, as well as. |
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| Descripción Física: | xi, 247 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298973 9781556199240 |
