¿Es el artículo una unidad pragmática? Acerca de la teoría de la definitud y la referencia

• Authors: Janusz Pawlik

Title variants

EN

Is the article a pragmatic unit? On the theory of definiteness and reference

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I intend to review some theories of the article, paying attention to the relations they establish between reference and +/–definiteness of a noun phrase (NP). The prototypes of +/–definiteness in Spanish are the definite and indefinite articles and NPs determined by them. Nevertheless, the actual reference of a NP depends mostly on its use (a speech act) and varies according to its pragmatic context. Reference and definiteness are mutually related concepts accompanied by pragmatic and semantic implications. I wish to make a critical overview of some proposals in this field of research.

Keywords

EN

article; definiteness; reference; pragmatics; semantics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 131-141

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Janusz Pawlik

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Polonia)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2021.482.012

Biblioteka Nauki

1395890