Introduced and Shared Objects. Objects in the speaker's Cognitive Image that do not appear in the hearer's Cognitive Image must be introduced therein. Introduction places an object's prototype, appropriately quantified, in the Subject Location of the hearer's Cognitive Image. Once introduced, an object may be located and quantified again through referential words that point to the object. For example, in

Certain objects may be shared in the Cognitive Images of both speaker and hearer before communication begins, and therefore need only be referred to when first mentioned by the speaker. Such objects may be inherently shared, as with personal pronouns, or recollectively shared, as prompted by the speaker.