The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretatio

This study describes third person reference in the fourth century Latin text commonly known as the Itinerarium Egeriae, focusing on what is traditionally labell

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for “about

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language