Reference And The Concept Of Identification: A Contrastive Study
Reference and the Concept of Identification: a Contrastive Study
Dr. Hazim Hakkush Al- Dilaimy
English Department
Ibri College of Education
Sultanate of Oman
1. Introduction
The concept of reference has received much attention by linguists and semanticists to be "the relation that holds between linguistic expressions and what they stand for in the world or universe of discourse". (Lyons, 1981: 220). Most of the literature on reference is devoted to such issues as how the notion of reference is manipulated to carry out the task of identification by means of various referring expressions which vary in the degree of the power of identification they supply about their referents.
The literature reveals that two camps have disputed over the issue of proper names when they are used as referring expressions. One camp believes that proper nouns have reference by......
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