Jezikoslovlje, Vol. 20. No. 3., 2019.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.21
THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVE DISCOURSE: ANAPHORA AND COHESION IN CHILDREN’S NARRATION
Ivana Trtanj
orcid.org/0000-0002-4700-8443
Sažetak
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.
Ključne riječi
children’s narrative ability; narrative discourse; children of preschool age; children of school age; anaphora; cohesion
Hrčak ID:
231468
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2019.
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