1st Edition
Indexical Reference in Discourse Coherence, Text Organization and Information Structure
Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Anaphora as a discourse phenomenon, Chapter 3: Anaphora, anadeixis and coherence, Chapter 4: The limit of pronominal reference: indirect anaphora, Chapter 5: Indexicals and discourse status: foreground vs. background information, Chapter 6: The discourse functioning of particular indexicals, Chapter 7: Information structure and indexical reference in discourse, Chapter 8: In Conclusion, References, Index
Biography
Francis Cornish gained a D.Phil in linguistics in 1982 from the University of Sussex and in 1997 a postdoctoral degree in the language sciences (‘Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences du Langage’) from the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France. He has written numerous articles on anaphora, deixis, reading, agreement, text and discourse structure, as well as information structure, reference, predication, and the lexical semantics–syntax interface. Francis Cornish taught Linguistics and later English Linguistics at the University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, France until his retirement in 2011.
