LINGUIST List 22.3662 Tue Sep 20 2011 Books: Ling Theories/Cog Sci/Discourse Analysis/Psycholing : Pu Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Ulrich Lueders , Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach: Pu Message 1: Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach: Pu Date: 19-Sep-2011 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach: Pu E-mail this message to a friend Title: Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 47 Published: 2011 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu Author: Ming-Ming Pu Paperback: ISBN: 9783862881611 Pages: 239 Price: Europe EURO 68.80 Abstract: Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach Ming-Ming Pu University of Maine, Farmington Discourse anaphora has long been the focus of considerable research in such diverse fields as linguistics, psychology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence because its study is fundamental to our understanding of the relationship among cognitive processes, discourse coherence, and information distribution. In discourse production and comprehension the speaker and hearer have separate and often conflicting processing needs, yet the hearer is able to quickly and uniquely identify various referents coded by given anaphora of the speaker's choice with the statuses of the referents and their contexts ever-changing. Such a tacit agreement between the speaker and hearer must stem from a collaborative effort in building a congruent mental structure of discourse where referents are introduced, reinstated or discarded, and duly tracked. This book proposes a cognitive-functional principle to account for how the construction of mental structure determines the use and resolution of discourse anaphora, and provides quantitative, cross-linguistic analyses of empirical and text data to demonstrate how the principle operates in discourse processing. The cross-linguistic study between two historically unrelated languages, Chinese and English, has revealed further that the occurrence and distribution of discourse anaphora is more universal in nature than language-specific. 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