This, that, and it in spoken American English: a demonstrative system of gradient focus

By Susan Strauss. 2002

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/47f1dcefded138427a55587f8d349350b96dab1d

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1. Paula Rubio-Fernández
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1. Paula Rubio-Fernández

Citations in the corpus

• Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind (2020, background): “In a study of ‘this’, ‘that’ and ‘it’ in American English, Strauss (2002) proposes that speakers establish referent accessibility according to the degree of attention that the listener should pay to the referent, with ‘this’ marking high focus, ‘that’ marking medium focus and ‘it’ marking low focus.”
• 'Proximal' and 'distal' in language and cognition : Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch (2008, background): “Thus the findings of Gundel et al. could reflect the fact that proximals are always indexical, whereas distals can also be non-indexical (i.e., occur without a pointing act).”