Geluykens Ronald. The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English: Evidence from Conversational Repair

Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. — 217 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN 3110134160, 9783110134162.The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.General goals and scope
A note on methodology
Outline of the analysis
Theoretical framework
Pragmatic principles in conversational discourse
Types of conversational repair
Information flow in conversation
The database
Other-initiated other-repairThe prototypical repair process
Self-repair after attempt at other-repair
Some interactional variantsSelf-initiated self-repairInteractional analysis
Prosodic aspects of repair-RDsSelf-repair and recoverabilityInferability of reference
Referential distance to antecedent
InterferenceRight-dislocation and self-repair
Preliminaries
RD as the reflection of conversational repair
Protoype Organization: non-prototypical RDs
Repair-RDs versus non-repair-RDs
Prosodic aspects of repair- versus non-repair-RDsOther-initiated other-repairs
Introduction: On the relevance of other-repairs
Interactional analysis
Information flow and other-repairs
lA Prosodic aspects of other-repairsVariant types ofanaphor repairRetracing anaphor repairs
Immediate anaphor repairs
Repairs from linguistic zero ("") forins to NP
Prosodic aspects of variant anaphor repairsRepairs of non-pronominal formsInteractional types of NP-to-NP repair
Semantic types of NP>NP repair
Infomational status of the reparandum
Prosodic aspects of NP-to-NP repair
Other repair fonnats (X-to-X repairs) CGeneral conclusion
Clarity, Economy and Collaboration
Information flow in conversation
Syntactic form and discourse function
Final remarks and further perspectivesAuthor Index