Kohesio anaforikoa. Adinaren eta testu generoaren araberako azterketa
Gogoa III (2) : 259-283 (2003)
Abstract
[EN] The main focus of this paper is the cohesion of the theme. First of all, placing
anaphoric cohesion within the theoretical framework developed by Bronckart (1985,
1996), we need to distinguish between cohesion, connection and coherence; and
furthermore, within the field of cohesion we need to distinguish between verbal cohesion and cohesion as regards nouns. Similarly, the paper also defines discourse as the linguistic realisation of the text, and talks about different types of discourse and
textual genres. Next, the paper focuses on the different approaches to cohesion. Since
anaphoric cohesion is the cornerstone of the study, some limits of this concept are defined and its main indicators specified.
Studies carried out from four different perspectives are taken into consideration:
those that focus on understanding pronominal anaphora; those that seek to analyse the
discursive side of language acquisition; those that look at anaphora and written texts; and those that concentrate on the didactic side of anaphora. From the model offered by Bronckart’s theory and the aforementioned studies, the following hypothesis is extracted: in Basque, language development is something which takes a long time, and textual genre plays an important role in defining and determining this development.