Toward a theory of anaphoric processing
Toward a theory of anaphoric processing
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走向照应处理理论
DOI：
10.1007/bf00627709
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发表时间：
1984
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
J. Hankamer
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作者：
I. Sag;J. Hankamer
语言学和哲学家长期以来一直关注的问题是制定一个精确的理论代词和其他照应元素或表达在自然语言中。提出的治疗方法相当多样化，但在回指的正式解释中，一个共同的假设似乎是，回指元素一般可以类似于逻辑语言中的变量来处理，逻辑语言的语义作用是由解释规则来阐明的，这些规则构成了对语言的真值或意义的递归定义。谁利用他们。在本文中，我们认为，一个基本的二分法之间的回指表达在自然语言中不能正确地理解，仅参照这样一个抽象的语义系统。我们认为，只有通过区分那些专门指代语言对象（因此本质上是替代性的）的回指和那些指代更一般类型的心理表征的回指，才能理解不同类型回指的属性。为了理解区分这两类回指表达的属性，人们必须了解它们是根据不同类型的心理对象进行处理和分配解释的。
Linguistics and philosophers have long been concerned with the problem of formulating a precise theory of pronouns and other anaphoric elements or expressions in natural language. Proposed treatments have been quite diverse, but a common assumption in formal accounts of anaphora appears to be that anaphoric elements in general can be treated analogously to variables in logical languages whose semantic role is explicated by rules of interpretation which constitute a recursive definition of truth or meaning for the language.Such definitions are highly idealized rule systems which abstract away from any particulars of the psychology of those who make use of them. In this paper, we suggest that a fundamental dichotomy among anaphoric expressions in natural language cannot be properly understood solely with reference to such an abstract semantic system. We argue that the properties of distinct types of anaphora can be understood only by distinguishing between those that reference specifically linguistic objects (and hence are essentially substitutive in nature) and those that reference more general sorts of mental representations. to understand the properties distinguishing the two classes of anaphoric expressions, one must under stand that they are processed and assigned interpretations on the basis of distinct kinds of psychological objects.