Déterminant possessif et accessibilité du référent dans une tâche de continuation de narrations
(2018) 6e Congrès mondial de Linguistique Française, — Location: Mons (9.July.2018)
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- (en) Possessive determinant and accessibility of the referent in a narrative continuation task. The factors that favour the choice of one type of referential expression over another by the author of a text and those that help the reader to identify its referent have been the subject of much research. They emphasized the importance of the accessibility of the entity in question in the discourse mental model. In these studies, the role of the possessive noun phrase has received little attention. By means of a narrative continuation task, we studied the effect of the possessive determinant on the presence of the character to which it refers and on the grammatical form used to refer to it in the sentences written by the participants. The impact of this referential factor was compared to that of a factor known to affect what we say in a discourse and how we say it: the presence or absence of a thematic break (in the last sentence provided to the participants). The results indicate that the use of a possessive determinant has no effect on the presence of the "possessor" in the continuations, but that it influences the grammatical form used to reintroduce it, a less specific anaphoric expression being used. The thematic factor presents the opposite profile: the presence of a break affects the mention of the possessor in the continuations, but not the type of expression used to refer to it. This conclusion holds for both French and English where possession is more grammatically marked.
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Bestgen, Y., & Piérard, S. (2018). Déterminant possessif et accessibilité du référent dans une tâche de continuation de narrations. In F. Neveu, B. Harmegnies, L. Hriba, S. Prévost (ed.), Actes du 6e Congrès mondial de Linguistique Française, (p. 12 p.). https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184610014