Anaphora as a liguistic, philosophical and psycholinguistic phenomenon

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Northwestern University, language: English, abstract: In this paper I will try to examine how different academic fields approach anaphoric phenomena. The fields involved here are primarily philosophy and linguistics, with its subfields of semantics, syntax, and psycholinguistics. Especially in linguistics, Anaphora is traditionally thought of in opposition to deixis. Philosophy is not so much directly ...