Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives

Proximity is the key concept for understanding a speaker's choice of Swahili demonstrative forms. The alternative approach in Leonard [1985] that proposes a speaker's concentration of attention as the key concept overlooks significant aspects of text structure. Proximity must not be concei...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:362651a6dd6b401cb32f36bc93bd6b3e2021-11-19T03:55:07ZDiscourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives10.32473/sal.v18i1.1074820039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/362651a6dd6b401cb32f36bc93bd6b3e1987-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107482https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XProximity is the key concept for understanding a speaker's choice of Swahili demonstrative forms. The alternative approach in Leonard [1985] that proposes a speaker's concentration of attention as the key concept overlooks significant aspects of text structure. Proximity must not be conceived of, as does Leonard, only in terms of spatial distance between the speaker and a referent. Temporal, narrative, and anaphoric distance must also be considered.Timothy WiltLibraryPress@UFarticleSwahilidemostrativesproximityattentionanaphoric distancePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 18, Iss 1 (1987)
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language EN
FR
topic Swahili
demostratives
proximity
attention
anaphoric distance
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Swahili
demostratives
proximity
attention
anaphoric distance
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Timothy Wilt
Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
description Proximity is the key concept for understanding a speaker's choice of Swahili demonstrative forms. The alternative approach in Leonard [1985] that proposes a speaker's concentration of attention as the key concept overlooks significant aspects of text structure. Proximity must not be conceived of, as does Leonard, only in terms of spatial distance between the speaker and a referent. Temporal, narrative, and anaphoric distance must also be considered.
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title Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
title_short Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
title_full Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
title_fullStr Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
title_full_unstemmed Discourse disctance and the swahili demonstratives
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