Items for "dyad of conversation"

Demonstratives in parallel texts: a case study

The aim of this paper is to show the usefulness of parallel texts for typological inves-tigations. In order to analyze the way in which demonstrative systems of the European languages function, two kinds of data have been considered: first, the results of a questionnaire based on situations represented in 48 pictures, which will be necessarily discussed only in a summarized way here...

Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, parallel texts, dyad of conversation