A response to Cole
| Autor: | A.M.C. van Kemenade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Languages in Transition Stages Linguistics and Language 0602 languages and literature 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 06 humanities and the arts Psychology Language & Communication 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics |
| Zdroj: | English Language and Linguistics, 21, 2, pp. 409-411 English Language and Linguistics, 21, 409-411 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4379 1360-6743 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1360674317000211 |
| Popis: | Marcelle Cole presents an interesting study of pronominal reference in Old English, nicely supplementing work available in the literature which shows, in brief, that in contexts with more than one possible referent, clause-initial nominative personal pronouns dominantly continue the topic (subject) of the previous clause, whereas clause-initial se-demonstratives dominantly switch the topic to a new referent of the previous clause. Cole adds to this with a study of the overall use of clause-initial pronouns in five Old English texts, which shows more variation than expected on the basis of this literature. Her conclusion is that se-forms by and large pick up discourse-new referents from the previous context. She further claims that her findings highlight how issues pertaining to style, such as the author–writer relationship, text type, subject matter and the conventionalism propagated by text tradition, influence anaphoric strategies in Old English. In this response article. I wish to counterbalance Cole's argument on two points, and make some suggestions for further research, based on recent psycholinguistic work. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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