Logophoricity and shifts of perspective

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-04-15 DOI:10.1075/fol.20001.nik
Tatiana Nikitina
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Abstract This study presents a typology of existing approaches to logophoricity and discusses problems the different approaches face. It addresses, in particular, perspective-based accounts describing constructions with logophoric pronouns in terms of their intermediate position on the direct-indirect continuum (Evans 2013), and lexical accounts incorporating the idea of coreference with the reported speaker into the pronoun’s meaning, either through role-to-value mapping mechanisms (Nikitina 2012a, b), or through feature specification (Schlenker 2003a, b). The perspective-based approach is shown to be unsatisfactory when it comes to treating language-specific data in precise and cross-linguistically comparable terms. It fails to account, for example, for cross-linguistic differences in the behavior of logophoric pronouns, for their optionality, and for their close diachronic relationship to third person elements. Lexical accounts are better equipped to handle a variety of outstanding issues, but they, too, need to be revised to accommodate a variety of discourse phenomena associated with logophoricity, including alternation with first person pronouns. The proposed solution follows the lines of lexical approaches but aims at enriching the pronouns’ lexical representation with notions pertaining to narrative structure, such as the role of Narrator. A separate solution is proposed for treating conventionalized uses occurring outside speech and attitude reports.
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词汇性和视角转换
摘要本研究对现有的同源性方法进行了类型学研究,并讨论了不同方法所面临的问题。它特别涉及基于视角的描述,根据其在直接-间接连续体上的中间位置来描述具有同源代词的结构(Evans 2013),以及通过角色-价值映射机制将与被报告的说话者的共指概念纳入代词含义的词汇描述(Nikitina 2012a,b),或者通过特征规范(Schlenker 2003a、b)。当以精确和跨语言可比的术语处理特定语言的数据时,基于视角的方法被证明是不令人满意的。例如,它没有考虑到语源代词行为的跨语言差异、它们的选择性以及它们与第三人称元素的密切历时关系。词汇叙述能够更好地处理各种悬而未决的问题,但也需要对其进行修订,以适应与同源性相关的各种话语现象,包括与第一人称代词的交替。所提出的解决方案遵循了词汇方法的思路,但旨在用与叙事结构有关的概念来丰富代词的词汇表征,例如叙述者的角色。提出了一种单独的解决方案,用于处理语音和态度报告之外出现的常规使用。
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期刊介绍: Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages.
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