QUELLE PLACE DE L’INFERENCE DANS LA RESOLUTION DE L’ANAPHORE NON STANDARD? LE CAS DU PRONOM PERSONNEL CLITIQUE

Abstract

The present contribution aims at highlighting the crucial role of inference in the
resolution of non-standard anaphora. In order to study this discourse phenomenon, the
focus has been on the referential functioning of the clitic personal pronoun, third
person subject. In this context, we have concentrated our attention on the co-textual
and discursivo-cognitive approaches in order to understand the research problem. We
focus our attention on the need for a strategy to calculate the referent in question. As
for the corpus, it consists of some representative statements containing the antecedent
problem that is missing in the text/discourse. These statements are published by
Internet users on social networks, in this case Facebook. This study shows that
referential incompleteness plunges the reader into incomprehension and equivocation.
Thus, the use of inference and discursive memory or shared knowledge of the speaker
promotes understanding and interpretation.