THE REALIZATION OF PERSON DEIXIS IN SPOKEN ALBANIAN

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze person deixis in the Albanian language, that is, to analyze the forms and ways of expressing person deixis. The interpretation of deictic expressions depends on certain characteristics of the situation of utterance or the utterance-act. Every linguistic expression is uttered in a specific place and at a specific time. It is made by a particular person (the speaker) and addressed to another person (the addressee). Such expressions, which have as their primary reference the communication participants, the speaker and the addressee, mark the person deixis. Thus, it is through the person deixis that the role of participants in communication, as speaker or addressee, are identified. A corpus consisting of a television interview was selected to analyze how person deixis is expressed in Albanian. This research will identify the characteristic markers of person deixis in the Albanian language and their use in various situations. It will also analyze cases where the same formal marker can serve as a deictic element or as anaphor. Their categorization in one group or the other depends on their contextual and cotextual reference. However, it is often the case that a particular marker plays a dual role, as anaphor referring to an element mentioned earlier in the text (or later, in the case of cataphora), and as a person deixis signifying participant(s) in communication situation. By analyzing the various possibilities of expressing person deixis, one will see how frequently deictic expressions occur in the selected corpus and what their role is. It will also be found how much they can influence or even reflect the relationship between the participants in communication.

Keywords

• дейксис личности
• реализация
• референция
• анафора
• албанский язык
• person deixis
• realization
• reference
• anaphora
• albanian