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Anaphora: Text-based, or discourse-dependent?| old_uid | 3658 |
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| title | Anaphora: Text-based, or discourse-dependent? |
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| start_date | 2007/12/11 |
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| schedule | 14h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Les exposés et la discussion seront en anglais |
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| summary | The traditional definition of anaphora in purely co-textual terms as a relation between two co-occurring expressions is still in wide currency in studies of the phenomenon. Under this conception, the anaphor, a referentially-dependent expression type, requires "saturation" by an appropriate fully autonomous, lexically-based expression, the antecedent, in order to achieve full sense and
reference. However, this definition needs to be re-examined in the light of the ways in which real texts operate and are understood, where the resulting picture is rather different. This is my major goal in the talk to be presented. The talk will start by characterizing two opposing approaches to the study of anaphora as well as deixis - the textualists' and the discourse-functionalists' - and will go on to develop a discourse-functional approach to both of these discourse-referring procedures, arguing for its validity. I aim to show that it is only in terms of a dynamic interaction amongst the complementary dimensions of text and discourse, as well as context,
that the true complexity of anaphoric reference may be satisfactorily described. |
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| responsibles | Poibeau |
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