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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] :
J. Benjamins Pub,
©2000.
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 76. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis--University College, London, 1995. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298973 9027298971 9781556199240 1556199244 1282163175 9781282163171 9789027250926 9027250928 |