Narrative discontinuity versus continuity in yagua

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11273029
AutoresDoris L Payne (0000-0002-8039-8762, University of Oregon, autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas375-394
Data de publicação1992-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01638539209544818
OpenAlexW1986522405
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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