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Pu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes, 1995
Focuses on the way entities are introduced into discourse, how they are referred to again later, and what motivates speakers to choose particular anaphora to manage reference at a given point in a narrative. Compares anaphoric patterns in English and Mandarin narratives. (HB)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education