چکیده:
This study aims to apply Halliday’s (Halliday & Hasan, 1976) concept of cohesion using Dooley and Levinsohn’s (2001) model of morphosyntactic pattern to Azeri Turkish narratives in an attempt to uncover narrative and morphosyntactic pattern relation. The corpus contains eleven short stories in Azeri Turkish. Findings of the study revealed that echoic utterance as a subtype of the morphosyntactic pattern may be used to mark the narrative peak. Also, there is a violation of morphosyntactic pattern in the corpus. This violation uses the historical present to draw the audience into a climatic situation. The study shows that echoic utterances can be regarded as links in a chain, functioning like cohesive ties in the text. The pragmatic notion, dramatic development, narrative peak, meaning construction, and implicature are also expressed by echoic utterances. Moreover, these discourse-pragmatic structuring constituents have been found to appear at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of narratives to provide a basis for relating a sentence to its context or mental representation, make the hearer accompany the narrator during the whole story and maintain the unity of the narrative.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Moreover, these discourse-pragmatic structuring constituents have been found to appear at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of narratives to provide a basis for relating a sentence to its context or mental representation, make the hearer accompany the narrator during the whole story and maintain the unity of the narrative .
Keywords: discourse, Azeri Turkish language, narrative, cohesion, functional linguistics, morphosyntactic pattern Introduction Cohesion is a key concept in scientific fields of chemistry, computer science, geology, social policy, and linguistics.
Dooley and Levinsohn (2001) present a list of common types of cohesion as follows: - Descriptive expressions which allude to entities mentioned earlier in the text - Identity, including repetition (whole or partial), lexical replacement, pronouns, other pro-forms, substitution, ellipsis - Frame reference - Lexical relations, including hyponymy (type of), part-whole, collocation, synonyms, generals, opposites - Morphosyntactic patterns (consistency of inflectional categories, echoic utterances, discourse-pragmatic structuring) - Signals between propositions - Intonation patterns The above list presented by Dooley and Levinsohn (2001) is largely taken from Halliday (Halliday & Hasan, 1976) and Brown and Yule (1980).
The current paper is aimed to study morphosyntactic patterns in Azeri Turkish (the language spoken predominantly in Iran, Azerbaijan and some other countries) as the first attempt to apply Halliday’s (Halliday & Hasan, 1976) concept of cohesion using Dooley and Levinsohn’s (2001) model of morphosyntactic pattern to the language to uncover narrative and morphosyntactic pattern relation in an attempt to understand linguistic cohesion in a deep sense.
There are three types of patterns, namely consistency of inflectional catego- ries, echoic utterances, and discourse- pragmatic structuring according to Dooley and Levinsohn (2001) for morphosyntactic cohesion.