Propositional discourse referents and anaphora in dialogue

Abstract

The article develops the notion of propositional discourse referents that contain dependent discourse referents. It explains the enablement of anaphora on the confirming uptake of assertions and questions by yes, and the blocking of anaphora by no, as well as the role of propositional anaphora like so. The explanation is embedded in a version of dynamic semantics that is based on dynamic context sets with their continuations.