Narrative discontinuity versus continuity in yagua

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11273029
AutoresDoris L Payne (0000-0002-8039-8762, University of Oregon, autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas375-394
Fecha de publicación1992-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01638539209544818
OpenAlexW1986522405
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

It appears that in all languages, speakers are motivated to give specific instructions to their hearers about how to integrate incoming information into the mental representation the hearer is currently building. In narrative, speakers’ instructions include whether to integrate eventive information as part of the main event line, or whether to integrate it as background to the main event line. Such instructions are necessary because, depending on the speaker's goals, semantic events are not always to be integrated as part of the main event line; thus, the speaker cannot rely on sheer communication of eventive versus noneventive information to be a sufficient clue of how to integrate incoming information. In part, Yagua speakers use the second position morpheme jííta to indicate that information should be integrated as part of the main event line. However, a complete analysis of this morpheme leads to the conclusion that its overall meaning is that the information it is attached to is mildly or strongly discontinuous with preceding information or expectations

Cognition · Event (particle physics · Event structure · Line (geometry · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Mental representation · Morpheme · Narrative · Natural language processing · Representation (politics · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation