Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts: Pragmatic Features and Referent Interpretation

by Donghong Liu

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher's (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation. The data sources include more than 160,000-word argumentative texts (80,000-word English texts and 80,000-word Chinese ones) selected from newspapers, journals, and books in China and America. At first,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819946298
• ISBN13: 9789819946297
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"