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Token-reflexive, anaphoric and deictic functions of ‘here’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2012

Thorstein Fretheim ,
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo  and
Ildikó Vaskó
Thorstein Fretheim
Affiliation:
Department of Language and Communication Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway. [email protected]
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 61, Legon, Accra, Ghana. [email protected]
Ildikó Vaskó
Affiliation:
ELTE University of Budapest, Department of Scandinavian Studies, H-1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 5. [email protected]
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Abstract

There are basically three ways in which the reference of a token of the English proximal spatial indexical here and corresponding terms in other languages can be resolved in the context-dependent, pragmatic phase of the addressee's determination of the propositional content of an utterance that contains this adverbial adjunct. ‘Here’ may refer reflexively to the place of utterance, including minimally the spot occupied by the speaker (token-reflexive reference), it may be anaphoric upon a discourse antecedent that provides information necessary for identification of the referent (anaphoric reference), or resolution of the reference depends on information derived from processing of a perceptual stimulus (deictic reference). These three pragmatic paths to resolution of the reference of proximal spatial indexicals are not mutually exclusive, so they do not warrant postulation of lexical ambiguity, at least not the traditional kind of ambiguity based on differences in conceptual meaning.

Keywords

anaphoradeixisderivational intention(spatial) indexicalsreferenceprocedural meaningRelevance Theorytoken-reflexivity
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , December 2011 , pp. 239 - 294
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2012

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