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- Title
Cognitive Accessibility and Referents Encoding Possibilities.
- Authors
Gjhani Rahman; Riaz-ud-Din; Muhammad Iqbal; Haroon-ur-Rashid
- Abstract
this paper investigates the different encoding possibilities of referents in tine with the cognitive accessibility level in the mind of the interlocutors in Pashto language. The paper discusses different encoding possibilities cross linguistically and eventually figures out. what possibilities are found in Pashto. The paper focuses the speaker's choices between different types of referring expressions such as full determiner phrases, pronouns, clitics, or agreement markers/accessibility markers according to the salience in a given discourse context (Ariel, 1990) in the light of Accessibility Theory. Accessibility Theory classifies referents into higher and lower accessibility markers in line with the cognitive accessibility level in the mind of the interlocutors, for example the following examples show lower and higher accessibility makers in Pashto respectively. In the first example (la), the proper noun (Ahmad) shows the lower accessibility marker while in the second example (lb), the pro (an empty argument).
- Subjects
COGNITION; PASHTO language; DETERMINERS (Grammar); DISCOURSE analysis; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Kashmir Journal of Language Research, 2017, Vol 20, Issue 2, p37
- ISSN
1028-6640
- Publication type
Article