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Ariel, Mira – Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Reviews theories on discourse and sentential anaphora. Levinson's general, extralinguistic pragmatic theory contrasts with the author's specifically linguistic, cognitive theory. Levinson cannot account for many anaphoric patterns actually found in natural discourse, whereas the author's accessibility theory accounts for both types of problematic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research