Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Speakers, addressees and the referential process 1
4. Part I. New insights into referential conventions
5. Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German 27
6. Is ambient it truly non-referential? 53
7. Lions, flowers and the Romans 71
8. Genre and reference chains 89
9. A linear approach of chain composition 107
10. When referents are seen and heard 127
11. Part II. From conventions to pragmatics
12. Human collective nouns and plural definite noun phrases 153
13. Electric vehicles in the press 171
14. Referring to the self and the addressee overtly 185
15. Part III. From conventions to pragmatics
16. Leaving this unsaid 213
17. Referential conventions as compromise 233
18. Referring to an avenue as an ‘artery’ ( artère ) in French 249
19. Part IV. From conventions to pragmatics
20. Who creates reference? 269
21. “ peut-être on peut improviser un peu ” 287
22. Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language 305
23. The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues 323
24. Index 347