A Cognitive Linguistics Storyline Analysis Of Iu-Mien Narrative Discourse
Author(s):
Arisawa, T Daniel
Format:
Journal article
Citation:
Journal Of The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2011-05). pp. Jan-40.
Language:
English
Abstract:
A storyline is a foregrounded mainline of development in narrative discourse. Taking the narrative as a mental picture viewed by a hearer/reader (i.e. conceptualizer), the Cognitive Linguistics posits two groups of constructions which make storyline emerge to the foreground: progression and sequential structures. The storyline progression in Iu-Mien narrative is encoded with the unmarked action/motion verbs, the development adverb aengx 'furthermore', Serial Verb Construction, topic chains, and the multiclausal constructions. The sequential structures include the prospective conjunction ziouc 'and then (soon)', the retrospective conjunction cingx_daaih 'therefore', the topic marker aeqv 'as for', and the ad-clause containing V-liuz 'after V-ing'. Adapted from the source document