ABSTRACT

This paper claims that utterance-initial sentential anaphor that is a representative implicit performative act that emphasizes the speaker’s acquisition of new information. As a speech act deixis which ordinarily grammaticalizes the roles of discourse participants, the use of utterance-initial sentential anaphor that is more dynamic than the use of utterance-initial sentential anaphor it in that the occurrence of utterance-initial sentential anaphor that necessarily evokes discourse participants in the utterance where it appears and in the previous utterance where the antecedent is found. Thus, the information carried by utterance-initial sentential anaphor that is activated by the speaker at the moment of speaking and is not in focus in the discourse, in contrast to the information carried by utterance-initial sentential anaphor it.

KEYWORD

utterance-initial sentential anaphor, utterance-initial nominal anaphor, discourse anaphor, centering, speech act discourse deixis

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