Intersentential Anaphoric Use of Personal Pronouns in English Discourse

The present article is concerned with the determination and descriptive analysis of the basic patterns of intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns in J. Galsworthy’s The Man of Property. The purpose of this study is to examine the textual functions of personal pronouns drawing upon the th...

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Main Author: Darija Bartkutė
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Vilnius University 2005-12-01
Series:Kalbotyra
Online Access:https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/23247
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description The present article is concerned with the determination and descriptive analysis of the basic patterns of intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns in J. Galsworthy’s The Man of Property. The purpose of this study is to examine the textual functions of personal pronouns drawing upon the theoretical assumptions of the science of text linguistics. The complexity of the relationship between the pronoun and its antecedent determines the distinction between simple and complex patterns of the intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns. Simple patterns serve the examination of the distances between the pronoun and the antecedent. The patterns in the given corpus demonstrate abundant instances of antecedent shifts which encumber the resolution process and thus allow us to consider the ambiguous relationships between the pronoun and the antecedent.
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spelling doaj.art-c13c88f536144daf8681798bf3ee66022022-12-21T23:36:02ZdeuVilnius UniversityKalbotyra1392-15172029-83152005-12-01553Intersentential Anaphoric Use of Personal Pronouns in English DiscourseDarija Bartkutė0VPU, Department of English philologyThe present article is concerned with the determination and descriptive analysis of the basic patterns of intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns in J. Galsworthy’s The Man of Property. The purpose of this study is to examine the textual functions of personal pronouns drawing upon the theoretical assumptions of the science of text linguistics. The complexity of the relationship between the pronoun and its antecedent determines the distinction between simple and complex patterns of the intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns. Simple patterns serve the examination of the distances between the pronoun and the antecedent. The patterns in the given corpus demonstrate abundant instances of antecedent shifts which encumber the resolution process and thus allow us to consider the ambiguous relationships between the pronoun and the antecedent.https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/23247
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title_short Intersentential Anaphoric Use of Personal Pronouns in English Discourse
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