| Author | Piotr Zbróg |
|---|---|
| Title | On the dialogue between text and extra-linguistic reality, or the internal relations of the earliest appositive groups and their denotation |
| Keywords | apositional group, denotation, monuments of the Polish language |
| Pages | 199-212 |
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| Volume | 38 |
Appositive groups allowed for a synthetic way of determining the set of referents of a given name in medieval texts. These expressions were an important pragmatic component, increasing the informational value of sentences and the semantic condensation of the message. Expressions composed of a base and an apposition, such as Mother of God, Virgin, Mary, enabled readers to identify the denotations of the expressions used in the text. The aim of the article was to describe the relationship between the members of apposition groups in the context of denotation. A typology of these groups was developed on the basis of the excerpted material. It consists of four basic types of relationships: identity of sets (as in the group Mary, queen), inclusion of sets (baby Jesus), intersection of sets (God, savior), and exclusion of sets (emperor, treasure). Medieval texts also contained examples of groups combining the above relationships (God, our savior, hope).