Logic, Language and Meaning pp 371-380 | Cite as
Now: A Discourse-Based Theory
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Abstract
This paper offers a semantic theory of uses of now in which now refers to a time introduced in discourse. I argue that the interpretation of an anaphoric use of now is determined by the rhetorical structure of the discourse in which the token of now figures.
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