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Bonifazi, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-7200-2684, Ioannidou, Pinelopi ORCID: 0000-0003-2261-142X and Salarzai, Zala (2022). Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs. J. Pragmat., 193. S. 88 - 105. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1879-1387

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Abstract

The paper reports the results of a quantitative and qualitative study concerning the pragmatic functions of proper names used anaphorically in a corpus of six British crime stories by three different authors. It evokes previous studies claiming that person references in conversation may do more than referring, and it relies on previous works on marked/overspecified anaphoric expressions in narrative texts. The analysis attempts to pin down the pragmatically-derived meanings resulting from anaphoric name forms occurring within paragraphs, that is, at paragraph starts and in the remaining paragraph sentences, and across paragraphs, that is, in contiguous paragraphs as well as in all the paragraphs of a story. Even though anaphoric name forms generally are still underexplored, they turn out to be the second category of anaphoric expressions being used after third-person pronouns. The results disconfirm that paragraphs preserve continued pronominalization. Various shifts, e.g. of topic, viewpoint, and utterer shifts can occur within paragraphs just as at paragraph starts. Selected passages show in detail which form suggests which shift in which context. Moreover, repetitions of the same name form within paragraphs and throughout stories suggest further implied meanings dealing with the relationships between characters and the authors' manipulations of person references. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bonifazi, Anna UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-2684 UNSPECIFIED Ioannidou, Pinelopi UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-142X UNSPECIFIED Salarzai, Zala UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-659526
DOI:	10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.009
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Pragmat.
Volume:	193
Page Range:	S. 88 - 105
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1879-1387
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/65952