Anaphoric choices in Japanese fictional novels: The discourse arrangement of noun phrases, zero and third person pronouns
Anaphoric choices in Japanese fictional novels: The discourse arrangement of noun phrases, zero and third person pronouns
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日本小说中的照应选择:名词短语、零和第三人称代词的语篇安排
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2003
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Y. Obana
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Y. Obana
By examining Japanese fictional novels, this article will discuss how anaphoric devices (noun phrases (NPs), third person pronouns (TPPs), and zero anaphors) are selected and arranged in a given discourse. The traditional view of anaphora considers the co-referential relationship between anaphoric devices to be syntagmatic; that is, a pronoun, for example, refers back to its antecedent. It also declares the hierarchical order of information values between anaphoric devices; NPs are semantically the most informative, indicating an episode boundary, and pronouns less informative. Furthermore, zero anaphora is the most referentially transparent, showing the most accessibility of a topic. However, real text shows the contrary. NPs occur frequently while there is no apparent discourse boundary, and the same episode is continuous. This is because zero anaphors and TPPs (if they occur) break down readily due to the nature of a forthcoming sentence and the NP is reinstated, in order to continue the same topic in a given discourse. Therefore, the article opposes the traditional view of anaphora. Based on the concept of text processing, using ‘mental representations’, this article will determine certain occurrence patterns of the three anaphoric devices.
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10.1080/01690969208409391
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1992
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Language and cognitive processes
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Gernsbacher,MortonAnn;Robertson,RachelRW
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Robertson,RachelRW