Türkçe Sözlü Söylemde Artgönderim Örüntüleri

Abstract

The present study, drawing on the Hierarchy Model which claims that anaphoric encoding and discourse organization are closely correlated, aims to explore the distribution of pronouns and zero anaphora as anaphoric patterns for the third-person human referents in Turkish spoken discourse and the relationship between this anaphoric distribuiton and the rhetorical structure of discourse. Within this framework, the present study carries out the Rhetorical Structure Analysis on the database which comprises five spoken texts recorded from a television program. The findings of the analysis indicate that the hierarchical structure of discourse determines the choice of a particular anaphoric form.