Indexicals and context: Context-bound pre-requisite(s), ongoing processing and aftermaths of the discourse referring act

Indexicaux et contexte: Prérequis contextuels, traitement continu et suites de l'acte de référence discursive

Francis Cornish (1)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

In this chapter, I would like to review the fundamentals (as rugby commentators often say), which often seem to be “taken as read” or even ignored in much work on indexical reference: the question of the nature of the various basic types of indexical referring procedures (here, pure deixis, “anadeixis” and discourse anaphora), and their realization via tokens of the different types of indexical expressions (demonstratives, definite NPs, 3rd person pronouns, and so on) – and in particular, their sensitivity and contribution to the context prevailing at the point of use. More specifically, the context which each type of referring procedure assumes and how each of them modifies that context subsequent to the point of use.

Domaines: Linguistique

Francis Cornish. Indexicals and context: Context-bound pre-requisite(s), ongoing processing and aftermaths of the discourse referring act. Marion Fossard and Marie-José Béguelin. Nouvelles perspectives sur l'anaphore: points de vue linguistique, psycholinguistique et acquisitionnel, Peter Lang, pp.5-33, 2014, Sciences pour la communication, 978-3034315456. ⟨10.3726/978-3-0352-0282-3⟩. ⟨hal-01921968⟩