Part I.New insights into referential conventions

Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German: Experimental results and theoretical modeling27

Manfred Krifka

Fereshteh Modarresi

Is ambient it truly non-referential?53

Elise Mathurin

Lions, flowers and the Romans: Exception management with generic and other count plurals71

Laure Gardelle

Genre and reference chains: From a global to a local approach89

Dominique Dias

A linear approach of chain composition107

Silvia Federzoni

Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac

Cécile Fabre

When referents are seen and heard: A comparative study of constructed action in the discourse of LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) signers and Belgian French speakers127

Sébastien Vandenitte

Part II.From conventions to pragmatics

Argumentative contexts

Human collective nouns and plural definite noun phrases: Semantic and argumentative perspectives on plural reference in French153

Michelle Lecolle

Electric vehicles in the press: Referential expressions as carriers of ideology171

Elodie Vargas

Jérémy Machy

Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice?185

Dwi Noverini Djenar

Part III.From conventions to pragmatics

Creative uses

Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in satirical newspaper headlines213

Stephen Skalicky

Victoria Chen

Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronyms233

Samia Ounoughi

Referring to an avenue as an ‘artery’ (artère) in French: From lexical signification to referential and discursive issues249

Thomas Bertin

Part IV.From conventions to pragmatics

Speaker adjustments in interaction

Who creates reference? Reference as an interactive procedure in discourse269

Manfred Consten

“peut-être on peut improviser un peu”: The emergence of joint construction of reference in a card game situation287

Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre

Elizaveta Chernyshova

Isabel Colon de Carvajal

Carole Etienne

Lydia Heiden

Laurène Smykowski

Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language: The case of AND305

Caroline David

Laurence Vinvent-Durroux

Kerry Mullan

Christine Béal

Cécile Poussard

The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factors323

Marine le Mené

Anne Salazar Orvig

Christine da Silva-Genest

Haydée Marcos

Index347

Table of contents

Part I.New insights into referential conventions

Part II.From conventions to pragmatics

Part III.From conventions to pragmatics

Part IV.From conventions to pragmatics