By Karen Van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik, Leo Noordman
This quantity offers chosen papers from the fifth foreign Cognitive Linguistics convention in the quarter of discourse research. the subjects addressed contain pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the sure article in English and Spanish, using discourse debris in Dutch, and the functionality of prosody as a marker of textual content constitution in spoken narratives. The papers illustrate the possibility of the rising cognitive linguistic paradigm to supply clean, revealing insights within the research of discourse.
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Of course, none of the people mentioned above are in any way responsible for the ideas laid out here. REFERENCE AND WORKING MEMORY 31 The contribution to these classical questions I propose below is a side product of a linguistic study (described in Kibrik (1996) and in §3–4 below) that relied on cognitive work. At some point I discovered that the model I developed to explain and predict discourse phenomena has implications for more general cognitive issues. Below I will briefly outline the study Kibrik (1996) on referential choice in Russian narrative discourse (§3), report an analogous study of English reference (§4), and then proceed with the three issues in working memory mentioned above (§5, §6, and §7).
To read prototypical narrative text, the mind needs to build contextual frames. For each sentence, the reader needs to add mentally-stored contextual information to the fragments of contextual information presented there. This gives the reader an awareness of co-present but covert characters and enables inferences to be made on the basis of this co-presence. The characters can be viewed as embodied within a cognitively-constructed representation of a context. This type of text is highly mimetic as it replicates the reader’s sense of ‘being in the world’ since inferences are made on the basis of our general knowledge of how the senses operate in particular physical environments.