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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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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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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