- A Denotational Analysis of Anaphora in Attitude Contexts
- A Denotational Analysis of Anaphora in Attitude Contexts
- ㆍ 저자명
- Yeom. Jae-Il
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 언어와 정보
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2004년|8권 2호|pp.47-72 (26 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국언어정보학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
In general, it is assumed that a pronoun refers to the same individual as the referent of its antecedent. However, when a pronoun and its antecedent are in different information or belief states, the two may not refer to the same individual. Then a question arises what a pronoun refers to. In this paper, two cases are considered. When a pronoun occurs in an attitude context, one case is where its antecedent occurs in a belief context, and the other is where the antecedent occurs in the main context. I propose that a pronoun refers to an individual concept which links two different subjects in two different contexts, and that the selection of a proper individual concept is restricted by the discourse. So a pronoun can be used felicitously only when there is a unique individual concept supported by the individual concept introduced by the discourse and which can link two subjects in two different contexts.