Abstract
The outlined approach to the modelling of some aspects of discourse is based on a well-established explicit theory of topic-focus articulation (TFA). It is claimed that TFA is one of the issues that influence discourse strategies and which contributes to a great extent to the speaker's choice of referential expressions in the subsequent utterances. A decisive role in the discourse strategies is played by the degrees of activation in the stock of knowledge assumed by the speaker to be shared by him and by the hearer at the time point of the utterances in question. The changes of these degrees in the course of the discourse can be described by a system of rules based on the appurtenance of the referring expression to the topic or to the focus of the sentence.
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