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Pragmatics
Vol. 31:4 (2021) ► pp.533–559

Salience and shift in salience as means of creating discourse coherence

The case of the Chipaya enclitics

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The Chipaya language, an endangered isolate of the Bolivian highlands, has a set of three enclitics, =l, =m and =ʐ, which are coreferential with the subject of a clause but are not necessarily attached to it and are not obligatory. In this paper, I investigate the pragmatic function of these forms. The salience-marking enclitics (henceforth SMEs) occur at paratactic and hypotactic discourse transitions, where they indicate a shift in salience, thereby contributing to creating discourse coherence. Discourse transitions without a shift in salience are not accompanied by the enclitics. Those enclitics that occur at paratactic transitions have scope over at least the segment whose beginning and/or end they occur in, whereas SMEs at hypotactic transitions have scope over the clause they appear in. Use of the SMEs is genre-specific.
Keywords: salience, shift in salience, discourse transitions, discourse coherence, enclitics, Chipaya, Bolivia
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical background
    • 2.1Salience, the Chipaya SMEs and further discourse-structuring devices of Chipaya
    • 2.2Discourse coherence and discourse transitions
  • 3.Data and methods
  • 4.Quantitative analysis
  • 5.Case studies
    • 5.1A folk story: The fox and the armadillo (DAT 26–1)
    • 5.2A descriptive text: Animales ‘animals’
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 17 August 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20010.han
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