TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES
This study looks at demonstrative descriptions, regarding them as text-deictic procedures which contribute to weave discourse reference. Text deixis is thought of as a metaphorical referential device which maps the ground of utterance onto the text itself. Demonstrative expressions with tex...
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| description | This study looks at demonstrative descriptions, regarding them as text-deictic procedures which contribute to weave discourse reference. Text deixis is thought of as a metaphorical referential device which maps the ground of utterance onto the text itself. Demonstrative expressions with textual antecedent-triggers, considered as the most important text-deictic units, are identified in a narrative corpus consisting of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and its translation into Catalan. Some linguistic and discourse variables related to DemNPs are analysed to characterise adequately text deixis. It is shown that this referential device is usually combined with abstract nouns, thus categorising and encapsulating (non-nominal) complex discourse entities as nouns, while performing a referential cohesive function by means of the text deixis + general noun type of lexical cohesion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2153866d366a404db981c8b8ffdaaafe2022-12-21T19:08:09ZengUniversidad de MurciaInternational Journal of English Studies (IJES)1578-70442007-06-017114916810.6018/ijes.7.1.48971TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCESJosep RiveraThis study looks at demonstrative descriptions, regarding them as text-deictic procedures which contribute to weave discourse reference. Text deixis is thought of as a metaphorical referential device which maps the ground of utterance onto the text itself. Demonstrative expressions with textual antecedent-triggers, considered as the most important text-deictic units, are identified in a narrative corpus consisting of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and its translation into Catalan. Some linguistic and discourse variables related to DemNPs are analysed to characterise adequately text deixis. It is shown that this referential device is usually combined with abstract nouns, thus categorising and encapsulating (non-nominal) complex discourse entities as nouns, while performing a referential cohesive function by means of the text deixis + general noun type of lexical cohesion.http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48971referencetext deixisdeixisanaphorademonstrative noun phrasegeneral nounlexical cohesion |
| spellingShingle | Josep Rivera TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES International Journal of English Studies (IJES) reference text deixis deixis anaphora demonstrative noun phrase general noun lexical cohesion |
| title | TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES |
| title_full | TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES |
| title_fullStr | TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES |
| title_full_unstemmed | TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES |
| title_short | TEXT DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE SEQUENCES |
| title_sort | text deixis in narrative sequences |
| topic | reference text deixis deixis anaphora demonstrative noun phrase general noun lexical cohesion |
| url | http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48971 |
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