In this paper we propose six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse. These statuses are the conventional ...

Discourse relations—both explicit, as marked by connectives and cue phrases, and implicit through juxtaposed text segments—are integral to the coherent interpretation and processing of language. These ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ahmadou Kourouma's emergence as a writer in the late 1960s meant that his first novel would be read in the context of the dominant literary ...