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Pro-Forms as Projective Devices in Interaction
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Keevallik, Leelo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Cataphoric pronouns have been characterized as being co-referential with a word that comes later. Considering that talk is produced in real time, with little benefit of knowing what is yet to come, participants understand cataphoric pro-forms to be projecting more talk. Projection is a crucial interactive resource, as it enables speakers to align…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Word Order