Deixis and anaphora in German dialects: The semantics and pragmatics of two definite articles in dialectical varieties
Deixis and anaphora in German dialects: The semantics and pragmatics of two definite articles in dialectical varieties
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德国方言中的指示语和回指:辩证变体中两个定冠词的语义和语用
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10.1075/pb.iii.2-3.10har
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1982
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Dietrich Hartmann
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作者:
Dietrich Hartmann
For various reasons I consider the study of dialects in German—as in other languages as well—to be a very fruitful field both for exploring deictic phenomena and for developing an empirically founded theory of deixis.(a) In this paper a dialect will be understood to be a variety of a given lan guage among other varieties of that language. Dialectal varieties are specified by their regional limitation. Furthermore by definition a dialect exists primar ily as a spoken variety; dialectal speech in written language (poems, quota tions, etc.) is secondary. Since dialects are used for oral communication only, they can be expected to contain frequently used deictic elements. This is shown by many transcriptions of spoken language.(b) In contrast to Standard German dialects often have developed not one but two different paradigms of the definite article. The morphological dif ferentiation of the two paradigms corresponds to different semantic and prag matic functions. The relevance of the two kinds of definite article in dialects has been hardly recognized by linguists and not even by dialectologists. If the existence of these two paradigms has been taken into account at all, the obser vations have not been dealt with as an important empirical basis for establish ing a theory of deixis.! In this paper I shall briefly outline the morphology and the functions of the articles used in a certain dialect of the Rhinelands. This analysis will not be exhaustive. A comparison between form-function rela-