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Peer reviewedGeisler, Cheryl; And Others – Written Communication, 1985
Examines recent claims by L. Moskovit about the use of the unattended "this"; argues that, in various cases, they fail to predict the referents that readers actually assign to a "this"; and offers an alternative framework for describing the considerations that go into distinguishing clear from unclear uses of an anaphoric…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
