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Attribution Semantics: Linguistic Worlds and Point of View.
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Palacas, Arthur L. – Discourse Processes, 1993
Presents an interpretive theory assigning all text to "Linguistic Worlds" (LWs). Shows how a special deictic LW (needed for default attribution to the speaker and useful for describing parentheticals, evaluative adjectives, and epitheticals) gives the capacity to characterize shifts in point of view accompanying the indirect first-person speech of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Research
Cognitive Development and the Language of Mental States.
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Ortony, Andrew – Discourse Processes, 1987
Critically examines papers by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy. (AEW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures