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, a comparative study was done between Chinese and English
argumentative texts so as to compare the pragmatic features of
abstract entity anaphora in the two languages. Then, referent
interpretation is explored within the SDRT framework. Although SDRT
can account for most of the instances of abstract entity anaphora,
it appears incompetent in dealing with some phenomena in the data
of our study. Seven problems in SDRT were found, and corresponding
solutions were proposed in an attempt to improve this theory. In
general, this book has three aspects of significance. Firstly, it
establishes abstract entity anaphora as an independent and a
special kind of anaphora. Secondly, the research methods are the
combination of empirical study and theoretical hypotheses as well
as the coalescent of dynamic study and static study. Thirdly, the
book is not limited to the application of SDRT to Mandarin Chinese
and backward anaphora. Instead, based on the linguistic phenomena
in the data, it challenges and improves the theory, and it even
negates some aspects and meanwhile brings forward new solutions.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer Verlag, Singapore
|
| Country of origin: |
Singapore |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Dong-Hong Liu
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
233 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-981-9946-29-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
981-9946-29-8 |
| Barcode: |
9789819946297 |
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