By studying anaphora in termsofdiscourse rather than sentence, webelieve we will be on the right track forsolvingthe puzzles involved in the operation of anaphora.
One ofthe least redeeming features ofthe past thirty years is that so much discourse tends towards polarised opinions, left and right, at the expense of creating rich dimensions in public reasoning.
The nature of mainstream political and media discourse in Germany right now is not redolent of a nation ready to make that degree of financial commitment in the interests of eurozone cohesion.