Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

While visual signals that accompany spoken language serve to augment the communicative
message, the same visual ingredients form the substance of the linguistic system in sign …

The main objective of the paper is to show that for an adequate analysis of an item's
information status in spoken language two levels of givenness have to be investigated: a …

Contrary to Sperber and Wilson (1986), I argue that relevance cannot be the only principle
that governs human communication. It can by no means replace current accounts of …

The theme of this volume is text representation, or more speciWcally the linguistic and
psycholinguistic aspects thereof. In our view, a text representation is a cognitive entity: a …

New referents are typically introduced into adult discourse with lexical nouns. This makes
new referents maximally clear for listeners, and helps the listeners direct their attention …

A straw man is a form of fallacious argument that involves the distortion of an opponent's
view in order to make it more extreme and therefore less acceptable, thus easier to attack. In …

For the past three decades, Chinese pronominalization has aroused the inter est of many
linguists (Chen 1986; Huang 1984; Li 1985; Li and Thompson 1979; Luk 1977; Xu 1986) …