Referential Salience in French and Mandarin Chinese
Influence of Syntactic, Semantic and Textual Factors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiaqi Hou (0000-0002-3995-4691, Tsinghua University, corresponding author), Frédéric Landragin (0000-0002-0030-7200, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 40 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9020040 |
| OpenAlex | W4391230804 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In this article, we propose a multifactorial approach to salience analysis, examining the influence of five factors on the salience of referential entities in discourse. Significance tests and Cramer's V tests were conducted to analyze textual data obtained through manual annotation of four text excerpts in French and in Chinese. The results show that almost all the factors have a significant influence on referents' salience (except the animacy factor in one of the excerpts). While it seems difficult to predict a fixed ranking of salience factors, which depends more on textual characteristics than on differences between the two languages, the different values of each factor under investigation show an identical behavior in terms of the positive/negative contribution to salience. The results also suggest that some factors (syntactic function and syntactic parallelism) may have a more stable influence on referents' salience than other factors (animacy, mobility, and main character), potentially constrained by textual properties such as the main character's nature, its number of occurrences, and the possible existence of competing protagonists
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Natural language processing · Salience (neuroscience · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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Universals of topic-comment structure
Thematic roles, focus and the representation of events
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Topic Continuity in Discourse
Which Factors Determine the Choice of Referential Expressions in L2 English Discourse
Pragmatics and Linguistics
Topic as a grammatical function in Chinese
New, current and displaced entity reference
Discourse prominence
Topic and Topic-Comment Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |