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Title |
Title of document |
7. An RNT Approach to Participants in English Texts - An Introduction to Relational Network Theory |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Adolfo García; Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata; Argentina |
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Linguistics |
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English; narrative; nouns; pronouns; ambiguity; zero realization |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Relational Network Theory |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter offers a relational network perspective on pronoun distribution in narration. Although countless nouns can be referred to by only a few (third-person) pronouns, the latter rarely produce ambiguity in discourse, even when the actions of varied participants are described. In narrative, a participant is usually named at first appearance, while pronouns are used for subsequent appearances. Reoccurrence of a name may respond to text length, discourse considerations (e.g., providing new information, establishing a thematic participant), and semantic constraints (e.g., avoiding ambiguity). Following Gleason’s stratificational approach to pronoun occurrence in a folktale in Kâte (a Papuan language), we present a network-based description of noun, pronoun, or zero realization for participant reference in a comparable English text. The chapter shows that discourse-level phenomena in typologically different languages can be characterized using similar resources from Relational Network Theory. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-May-2017 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26604 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.26604 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; An Introduction to Relational Network Theory |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |