1. Presented by group 2
1. Ahmad Ruhin Hidayat (1510202004)
2. Yoshinta Adinda Bayu (1510302024)
3. Anida Latifah (1510302025)
2. Reference
Reference is an act in which a speaker or writer
uses linguistic form to enable a listener or reader to
identify something (George Yule).
3. Referring expressions
1. Proper Nouns
(e.g. George Yule, Hawaii, Raja Ampat)
2. Definite Noun Phrases
(e.g. The city, The student)
3. Pronouns
(e.g. He, She, It, I, You, We, They)
4. Indefinite Noun Phrases
(e.g. A man, a woman, a beautiful place)
4. Referential and Attributive Uses
There’s a man waiting for you.
He wants to marry a woman with lots of money.
We’d love to find a nine-foot-tall basketball player.
6. Example
A: Can I borrow your Shakespeare?
B: Yeah, it’s over there on the table.
A: Where’s the cheese sandwich sitting?
B: He’s over there by the window.
7. ANAPHORIC REFERENCE
Reference : an act or instance of referring
Anaphora : a rhetorical term for the repetition of a
word or phrase at the beginning of successive clause.
8. Antecedent : the first mentioning or the initial referent.
Anaphora : the second mention.
Peel and slice six potatoes. Put them in cold salted water.
antecedent anaphora
Cataphora : put it before antecedent.
I turned the corner and almost stepped on it. There was a large
snake in the middle of the path.
Zero Anaphora : there is no antecedent, anaphora, and
cataphora, but the listener can understand what the speaker
means.
Cook for three minutes.
9. CO-TEXT
Used to accompany or support the referring expressions.
Example :
Brazil wins world cup.
referring expression co-text
10. Reference and Inference
Reference Inference
“Mr. Kawasaki”
Used to refer to a man who
always rode loud and fast his
motorcycle .
A brand name is used to refer
to a person here.
“Can I look to your
Chomsky?” “I enjoy listening
to Mozart”.
This process, where
additional information is
needed to connect what is
said to what is meant is
inference.
11. INFERENCE
I Just rented a house. The kitchen is really big.
If x is house then x has a kitchen.
We had Chadonnay with dinner. The wine was the best
part.
Chardonnay is kind of wine.
The bus came on time, but he didn’t stop.
The antecedant (the bus) and the anaphor (he) are not grammatical
agreement.