Thursday, May 3, 2007

Deixis

Deixis, words rely absolutly on context
Anaphora, word reference themselves E.g. This sentence is false.

Anaphora needs to be resoluted when taken out of context. The banana is yellow. It has a skin.
"It has a skin" it taken by itself mut be resoluted as "The banana has a skin."

"The Banana is yellow. It has a skin" is also an exophora whcih means the meanign must be taken out of the smae text.


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