Using the naturally occurring conversation as corpus data,this paper studies the distributional patterns of anaphoric reference to persons in spontaneous conversation,claiming that these patterns constitute a hierarchy ranging from the prototypical one to the non-prototypical one.

The English and Chinese unmarked personal anaphora are pronominal anaphora and zero anaphora respectively.

Amid many factors contributing to the complicate n et work of Eliot s monumental work The Waste Land, personal deixis plays a crucial role in interweaving the baffling labyrinth of modern poetry.

While concrete individual anaphora has been adequately studied by linguists, abstract entity anaphora has not received enough attention.

This paper mainly discusses the third person pronominal anaphora.