When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference
Adopting Berrendonner’s (1990; fc.) distinction between “micro-syntax” and “macro-syntax”, as well as the orthogonal one between foregrounded and backgrounded discourse segments (cf. Khalil, 2005), this paper aims to examine certain “non-canonical” interactions amongst these domains. In particular,...
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| description | Adopting Berrendonner’s (1990; fc.) distinction between “micro-syntax” and “macro-syntax”, as well as the orthogonal one between foregrounded and backgrounded discourse segments (cf. Khalil, 2005), this paper aims to examine certain “non-canonical” interactions amongst these domains. In particular, I shall be looking at instances where a potential referent is evoked within a highly presupposed, discursively backgrounded text segment, but where that referent is targeted either via an “anadeictically”-used or a non-anaphorically used indexical expression and made into a discourse entity in its own right. The latter is characteristic of discourse deixis, but not of anaphora as such. I will also be looking at larger stretches of text, which relate to each other discursively in terms of “macro-syntax”. I will try to characterise the limits of discourse-anaphoric reference as a function of the degree of backgrounding or foregrounding of the discourse units in terms of which that referent is determined and targeted. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e5fad720a30b462baff1d1401d63d9402025-01-30T09:52:54ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232009-05-01310.4000/discours.6152When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical referenceFrancis CornishAdopting Berrendonner’s (1990; fc.) distinction between “micro-syntax” and “macro-syntax”, as well as the orthogonal one between foregrounded and backgrounded discourse segments (cf. Khalil, 2005), this paper aims to examine certain “non-canonical” interactions amongst these domains. In particular, I shall be looking at instances where a potential referent is evoked within a highly presupposed, discursively backgrounded text segment, but where that referent is targeted either via an “anadeictically”-used or a non-anaphorically used indexical expression and made into a discourse entity in its own right. The latter is characteristic of discourse deixis, but not of anaphora as such. I will also be looking at larger stretches of text, which relate to each other discursively in terms of “macro-syntax”. I will try to characterise the limits of discourse-anaphoric reference as a function of the degree of backgrounding or foregrounding of the discourse units in terms of which that referent is determined and targeted.https://journals.openedition.org/discours/6152discourseanaphoramacro-syntaxforegroundingbackgroundingmicro-syntax |
| spellingShingle | Francis Cornish When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference Discours discourse anaphora macro-syntax foregrounding backgrounding micro-syntax |
| title | When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| title_full | When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| title_fullStr | When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| title_full_unstemmed | When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| title_short | When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information: How foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| title_sort | when indexicals target discursively subsidiary information how foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse affect indexical reference |
| topic | discourse anaphora macro-syntax foregrounding backgrounding micro-syntax |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/6152 |
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