Referential Salience in French and Mandarin Chinese: Influence of Syntactic, Semantic and Textual Factors
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25 janvier 2024
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- doi: 10.3390/languages9020040
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Jiaqi Hou et al., « Referential Salience in French and Mandarin Chinese: Influence of Syntactic, Semantic and Textual Factors », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10.3390/languages9020040
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In this article, we propose a multifactorial approach to salience analysis, examining the influence of five factors on the salience of referential entities in discourse. Significance tests and Cramer's V tests were conducted to analyze textual data obtained through manual annotation of four text excerpts in French and in Chinese. The results show that almost all the factors have a significant influence on referents' salience (except the animacy factor in one of the excerpts). While it seems difficult to predict a fixed ranking of salience factors, which depends more on textual characteristics than on differences between the two languages, the different values of each factor under investigation show an identical behavior in terms of the positive/negative contribution to salience. The results also suggest that some factors (syntactic function and syntactic parallelism) may have a more stable influence on referents' salience than other factors (animacy, mobility, and main character), potentially constrained by textual properties such as the main character's nature, its number of occurrences, and the possible existence of competing protagonists.