REFERENCE AND INFERENCE

REFERENCE AND INFERENCE

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   • Reference is the act a speaker, or writer, uses lingistic forms to enable a listiner, or reader, to identify something. The process of drawing a conclusion from reasoning.
     • There are referring expressions
       • Which are
         • Linguistic forms. any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
     • They have some characteristics
       • Referential and Attributive uses
         • Attributive uses is when an entity is known by its descriptive properties, whatever/whoever fits the description. And referential uses when we refer to the specific entity.
       • Names and References
         • When there is a connection between proper names and objects conventionally associated by socio-cultural factors.
       • The role of co-text
         • Co-text limits the range of posible interpretations. The co-text accompanying the referring expression and provides different possibilities depending on the way it is uttered and the grammatical units used at the moment.
       • Anaphoric reference
         • Anaphoric references are present when we use definite or indefinite nouns to replace the referent. Also, there are cataphoric references that are reversal anaphoric references, occurs when a indefinite pronoun appear before the referent. And zeroanaphora or ellipsis, when it is require to idenfy and entity, and there are not linguistic expressions

2. Marlon Steven Betancurt Calderon