Abstract Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around
us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as …

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and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
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In this paper we examine the differences in use between distal and proximal demonstrative
terms (eg, singular “this” and “that”, and plural “these” and “those” in English). The proximal …

This article provides an extensive overview of the literature related to the phenomenon of
non-nominal-antecedent anaphora (also known as abstract anaphora or discourse deixis), a …

Endophoric demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words
in written texts. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how exactly they should be subdivided and …

Demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in texts. But
what are the factors that determine whether a writer uses one demonstrative form (proximal …

This paper investigates indirect anaphora (IA) from a corpus-based linguistics (CBL)
perspective. Indirect anaphora involves backward-pointing links between surface lexical …

Recent research in audiovisual translation has focussed on the language of both original
and translated dialogue, revealing different degrees of alignment between fictional dialogue …

The aim of this article is to discover the determining factors for the use of exophoric, nominal
demonstratives in Spoken Jordanian Arabic (SJA). The focus is on demonstratives that are …