KONŠTRUOVANIE EGOCENTRIZMU: PRAGMATIKA – GRAMATIKA – KOGNÍCIA

• Authors: Kesselová Jana

Title variants

EN

Egocentrism development: Pragmatics – grammar – cognition

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study contributes to knowledge on how a man’s ego develops in an early age. The construal of egocentric perspective is observed in expressions of self-reference (the pronoun I is expressed explicitly). The method of longitudinal case study is used. Since Slovak language is pro-drop language (personal pronouns can be omitted) the research is set in pragmatic and social context. We examine the pragmatic function of utterances with the pronoun I and their dynamics. While at first the child refers to herself in third-person, at the end of toddlerhood the child can use the pronoun I even when talking about others. This indicates comprehension of reciprocity of perspectives (I versus you).

Keywords

EN

EGOCENTRISM; SELF-REFERENCE; PRAGMATIC FUNCTION; RECIPROCITY; SLOVAK LANGUAGE

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 5-6
• Pages: 304 – 324

Contributors

author

Kesselová Jana

• Inštitút slovakistiky a mediálnych štúdií, Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 17. novembra č. 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic