THE SYSTEM OF REFERENCE IN “THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE” BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
THE SYSTEM OF REFERENCE IN “THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE” BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Summary/Abstract: There are two major cohesive types: the system of conjunction and the system of reference. The system of conjunction represents a resource for semantically linking the complex sentences into a text. The system of reference represents a resource that marks the status of the text, namely values that are assigned to elements of the discourse in order to make the readers and the speakers process these elements. The two textual statuses, Theme and New, have different functions in the flow of text. Theme represents the departure point in a complex sentence, while New retains the information expressed by the Theme. This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we are going to discuss all types of references, pointing out that reference is made in the context of situation. In the second part we are going to analyse the system of reference in the short story “The Red-Headed League” by the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle, pointing out all types of references the author used: exophora and endophora, co-reference (personal and demonstrative) and comparative reference (general and specific).

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