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In the next three chapters, we shall be concerned with reference as a speech “art”—as an indication of the speaker’s facility in guiding listeners through discourse texts. This kind of reference is not the referring of symbols to physical things in the environment characteristic of all language. It is rather a particular referring which occurs within language, within a text, marking out some items as requiring more information from elsewhere in the text or context, and other items as needing no further information. This particular referring is termed “phoricity.”
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Rochester, S., Martin, J.R. (1979). Reference as a Speech Art. In: Crazy Talk. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9119-1_4
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