Part of the series "Pragmatics and Beyond", this text discusses such issues as: referring expressions; inferring identifiability and accessibility; word order and cognitive status in Mandarin; prosodic cues to accessibility; and the game of the name.

1. Introduction; 2. Referring Expressions and the +/- Coreference Distinction (by Ariel, Mira); 3. Inferring Identifiability and Accessibility (by Chafe, Wallace); 4. Animacy in Grammar and Discourse (by Dahl, Osten); 5. Cognitive Ontology and NP Form (by Fraurud, Kari); 6. Accessing Contexts with Intonation (by Fretheim, Thorstein); 7. Written Discourse Segmentation: The Funtion of Unstressed Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese (by Giora, Rachel); 8. Relevance Theory Meets the Giveness Hierarchy. An Account of Inferrables (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 9. On Accessibility and Coherence (by Halmari, Helena); 10. Word Order and Cognitive Status in Mandarin (by Hedberg, Nancy); 11. The 'price tag' on Knowledge Activation in Discourse Processing (by Hellman, Christina); 12. Generic Sentences are Topic Constructions (by Lee, Chungmin); 13. Prosodic Cues to Accessibility (by Mithun, Marianne); 14. The Game of the Name (by Mulkern, Ann E.); 15. The Interpretation of Empty Pronouns in Vietnamese (by Rosen, Victoria); 16. The Effect of Genre on Referential Choice (by Toole, Janine); 17. A Bilateral Approach to Giveness: A Hearer-Status Algorithm and a Centering Algorithm (by Walker, Marilyn A.); 18. Index of Subjects; 19. Index of Names