The paper establishes the types of referential conflicts and their linguistic means in the result of the analysis of the encoding methods of the subject components in reference structures of English newspaper texts by the methods of semantic and contextual analysis. The paper defines structural (the difference in the grammatical number of the antecedent and anaphor), contextual-semantic (several activated hyponyms correlated with one hypernym) and culturally specific reasons for the occurrence of referential conflicts in English newspaper texts. The methods for resolving referential ambiguity with the help of deep-semantic and extralinguistic factors are determined. The genre specificity of referential conflicts that prevail in English interviews is revealed.
The paper establishes the types of referential conflicts and their linguistic means in the result of the analysis of the encoding methods of the subject components in reference structures of English newspaper texts by the methods of semantic and contextual analysis. The paper defines structural (the difference in the grammatical number of the antecedent and anaphor), contextual-semantic (several activated hyponyms correlated with one hypernym) and culturally specific reasons for the occurrence of referential conflicts in English newspaper texts. The methods for resolving referential ambiguity with the help of deep-semantic and extralinguistic factors are determined. The genre specificity of referential conflicts that prevail in English interviews is revealed.