Anaphora often occurs in conversational communication.For the hearer,the cognitive context construction of anaphora plays a very important role in understanding the speaker’s communicative purposes and promoting the ...
Recently,there has been growing interest in the study on cohesion of texts,particularly in the aspect of anaphoric reference.The problem under discussion is within the scope of similar and different usages of anaphors...
In this article,two types of anaphora—(i)null subjects and(ii)long-distance reflexivisation— will be briefly compared and contrasted between Chinese and some Germanic,Romance,and Slavic languages,showing how they ar...
The core function of anaphora is to serve as a substitute for a certain linguistic component in texts, but it actually has other missions such as creating the rhetorical effect--irony. However, anaphora alone cannot c...
This study introduces two types of discourse anaphor and discusses the syntactic constraints on it.Finally,two unusual uses of third personal pronouns as discourse anaphor in A Dream of Red Mansions are expounded.
In both English and Chinese, pronouns are used with great frequency. And there are numerous usages of pronoun anaphors. The similarities and differences are summarized with the comparison of pronoun anaphors in Englis...
As a speaker communicates with a hearer,the speaker’s attention can come to be on a particular entityher " target"—that she wants to communicate about to the hearer.This target can be located near or far in either t...
The anaphora resolution firstly relies on the special association between the anaphor and the antecedent.But this kind of associa tion may not result in the accomplishment of the anaphora resolution.By the analysis of...