Analysis on Semantic Relations of English Nominal Anaphora

DOI

10.2991/icedem-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

anaphora; nominal anaphora; semantic relation; College English Teaching

Abstract

Anaphora plays an indispensable role in discourse cohesion since it tells us how discourse is constructed and arranged. The present paper aims to analyze anaphora from a semantic angle. In this paper, definition and types of anaphora are presented firstly, and then moves to focus on nominal anaphora. Through analyzing these English nominal anaphoric phenomenons, semantic relations between anaphoric elements and their antecedents such as synonymy, hyponymy and meronymy are found out between these sentences. Finally, some enlightenment with regard to English teaching and learning are provided.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yuqing Xu
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TI  - Analysis on Semantic Relations of English Nominal Anaphora
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Economic Development and Education Management (ICEDEM 2019)
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