Organizacija pripovjednoga diskursa: anafora i kohezija u dječjem pripovijedanju
THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVE DISCOURSE: ANAPHORA AND COHESION IN CHILDREN’S NARRATION
Author(s): Ivana TrtanjSubject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Language acquisition, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Osijek
Keywords: children’s narrative ability; narrative discourse; children of preschool age; children of school age; anaphora; cohesion;
Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the development of children’s narrative ability by analysing the use of anaphora as a means of creating cohesive discourse. Our study seeks to establish whether the pronouns and ellipses used by 4- and 10-year olds are co-referential with their antecedents, at what age co-referential relations start to manifest within a sentence, and what type of co-referential relations is the most prevalent one. The results have confirmed our hypotheses that children under the age of six do not use their pronouns and ellipses co-referentially with their antecedents, that the presence of co-referential links within a sentence increases with age, and that the dominant type of co-referential relations is subject-subject.
Journal: Jezikoslovlje
- Issue Year: XX/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 583-601
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Croatian