Author : Francis Cornish
Release : 2015-07-03
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anaphoric Relations in English and French by : Francis Cornish
Download or read book Anaphoric Relations in English and French written by Francis Cornish. This book was released on 2015-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.
