Search results for "Deixis"
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Use and Translation of Demonstratives in Fiction: A Contrastive Approach (English-Catalan)
2013
Demonstratives are usually described as prototypical situational space deictics, but corpus analysis shows that situational deixis is not the most frequent function that they perform. This article shows the complexity of the use of demonstratives and the effects of such complexity on translation by analyzing some English examples and their translation into Catalan in two novels. Specifically, the English demonstratives this/these/that/those and their Catalan counterparts have been identified as a first step of the analysis. Secondly, their use has been analyzed taking into account the differences of the two deictic systems and other relevant variables. Finally, the general strategies activa…
Una Poètica Dialògica: Atlas de Pere Salinas i Joan Navarro
2012
Pere Salinas and Joan Navarro initiated with Atlas (Correspondencia 2005-2007) a dialogue between painting and poetry. The book starts with a painting by Pere Salinas, which provokes a poem by Joan Navarro, which in turn provokes a painting. It continues this way until getting to 46 images and 46 poems. The concept of dialogism allows analyzing how alterity, the orientation towards a nonverbal answer, determines poetical writing. The poet, in his dialogue with each pictorial text, searches for new ways of expression that privilege the showing, from deictics to images, and this search leads to an experimentation that alters the entire poetical system. Time and space are not opposed. Painting…
On deictic motion verbs in Homeric Greek
2017
This paper investigates the basic motion verbs ‘go’ and ‘come’ in Homeric Greek. In particular, it aims to examinewhether the deictic component,which is usually ascribed to the inherent semantic meaning of these verbs cross–linguistically, has to be considered as a prototypical semantic property of εἶμι ‘go’ and βαίνω ‘step; go; come’. These latter can indeed take a deictic interpretation at a pragmatic, syntactic or discourse level, but I will show how the deictic component is not inherently associated with their lexical semantics. Data from the contexts of use of these verbs, in both narrative discourse and direct speech, strongly suggest that the original semantic opposition between ‘go’…
Inflectional speaker-role classifiers in Weining Ahmao
2008
Abstract This paper is the first of two (see references) aiming to bring to the attention of pragmaticians an idiosyncratic classifier system that encodes speaker-roles along the lines of gender and age. Isolating (analytic) languages are known for their scarcity of word forms and for their under-specification of grammatical categories. Analytic languages in East and Southeast Asian involve classifiers – a word category without counterpart in most languages of the inflectional type – to attenuate some of the vagueness in the nominal realm. Similar to other parts of speech, the classifier generally constitutes a one-form word category with occasional sandhi-derivations. Weining Ahmao, a Miao…
Emotivity in Valencian demonstratives
2022
Més que una proximitat metafòrica cap al referent, la dixi emotiva, afectiva o empàtica produeix proximitat cap a l’oient arran de l’atenció conjunta i/o l’avaluació del referent. Aquest treball estudia els usos del demostratiu (com ara, la funció nominal o adverbial, el grau, el mode referencial, el caràcter humà, etc.) i de les seues construccions (anteposades al nom, posposades al nom o sense nucli nominal) per a comprovar quin tipus de demostratius tendeixen a tindre referents que són valorats de manera positiva o negativa. Per a realitzar aquesta exploració, hem recollit 383 formes demostratives d’un corpus propi (CoValC) format per converses col·loquials entre valencianoparlants de di…
On the relation between present and future tense in Lithuanian: Preliminary considerations in the domain of non-deictic tense use
2021
The article examines non-deictic uses of present and future tense in Lithuanian. Narrative use, in which reference intervals match with singular events, is distinguished from suspended propositions characterized by lack of such reference intervals (habitual, dispositional and circumstantial modal, and conditional meanings). Present tense is frequently involved in both usage domains, while the future is rare in narrative use, but overlaps with present tense in certain types of suspended propositions. Moreover, its temporal-deictic use is inherently associated with suspended propositions and “linked” to them via epistemic implicatures. This, in contrast to the present, makes the future more l…
Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions
2018
En el presente articulo, analizamos las diferentes funciones de los adverbios deicticos espaciales del espanol. Mas concretamente, el analisis de los adverbios deicticos espaciales en construcciones despersonalizadoras muestra que, si se produce una ausencia de formas deicticas personales, la interpretacion de los adverbios deicticos espaciales no solo depende de los factores fisicos, sino tambien de los factores contextuales del discurso. Ademas, se muestra como los adverbios deicticos espaciales en construcciones despersonalizadoras cumplen funciones diferentes que si se utilizan junto con los deicticos de persona o con referencias concretas de tercera persona. En efecto, en ausencia de l…
Els mecanismes de referència en la interfície gramàtica-discurs. Cohesió, coherència i cognició
2018
La cohesió referencial integra una sèrie de mecanismes gramaticals lèxics de tipus fòric que estableixen lligams de caràcter sintàctic i semàntic entre les entitats discursives. Mitjançant la referència, els significats textuals s?entreteixeixen, de manera que es creen una sèrie de xarxes correferencials i de sentit a través de les quals s?encadenen els mots per contribuir a la cohesió textual. Com a fenomen que inclou la pronominalització, l?el·lipsi o anàfora zero, la dixi textual (que es concreta bàsicament en l?ús no exofòric de demostratius) i una varietat de mecanismes de cohesió lèxica (relacions de repetició, reiteració i associació), la cohesió referencial se situa en la interfíci…
Einführung von Diskursreferenten im Bilderbuch
2011
By analyzing 20 picture books that include both a textual narrative and pictures, three types of referent introduction were identified: introduction of referents by use of an indefinite noun phrase; introduction of referents by use of a definite noun phrase or a proper name; introduction of referents by use of a deictic construction. This shows that children are confronted with different strategies of referent introduction from early on. It is argued that the results of studies on the acquisition of the system of reference introduction could possibly be interpreted differently if one takes into account how the experience with literary texts influences children’s own narratives.
L'evolució de la referència als participants en el debat parlamentari en català (1932-2013)
2018
Aquest article presenta sumàriament els primers resultats d'una recerca en curs que té com a objectiu estudiar l'evolució de les estratègies lingüístiques i discursives utilitzades per a la referència als participants en el Parlament de Catalunya en el perí-ode 1932-38 (durant la Segona República Espanyola) i en el període que va des de la recuperació de les institucions democràtiques catalanes, el 1980, fins al 2013. L'anàlisi combina els mètodes qualitatius amb els quantitatius i mostra diverses tendències en l'evolució de l'ús de les diferents formes i estratègies. La incorporació dels marcs par-ticipatius de Goffman (1981) a l'anàlisi proporciona un conjunt de dades que, un cop descrite…