On the Cognitive Statuses of Sasak Demonstratives

Sutarman Sutarman,Diah Supatmiwati Diah Supatmiwati,Wiya Suktiningsih Wiya Suktiningsih,Abdul Muhid Abdul Muhid,Zainudin Abdussamad

doi:10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.8.11

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Abstract

This study examines the cognitive statuses of the Givenness Hierarchy on Sasak demonstratives, particularly in Menu-Meni dialect of the Sasak language. This study is qualitative research in nature. The data were collected via the field-linguistic method by utilizing three techniques: elicitation, semi-structured interview and intuition. The results of the study revealed that Menu-Meni dialect implements the pronominal demonstrative for “activated” status and adnominal demonstratives are used for the status of “referential”, “uniquely identifiable”, and “familiar”. Beyond demonstratives, zero articles is applied in the status of “type identifiable” and the pronoun ie (it/she/he) is used in the status of “in focus”. Thus, demonstrative has a prominent role in most of the cognitive statuses in the Givenness Hierarchy theory.

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1 Sasak language is the local language of the Sasak ethnic group on Lombok Island
This study examines the cognitive statuses of the Givenness Hierarchy on Sasak demonstratives, in Menu-Meni dialect of the Sasak language
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstratives in English and Arabic. [Unpublished thesis] Middlesex University

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Introduction

Demonstratives in the Sasak dialect are subtly divided into seven categorizations (Sutarman and Hanafi, 2020): pronominal, adnominal, identificational, adverbial, verbal, quantifier, and referential. Type identifiable refers to the interlocutor’s capability to represent the type of object expressed by the nominal expression but not to identify the specific thing (see Gundel, 1993; Amfo, 2007;Jones,1993).In English, the use of article a/an is assumed appropriate for this status. Gundel et al (1993) suggest that this status is appropriate for the use of indefinite this in colloquial English In this example [5], this man's noun phrase is considered appropriate since the speaker intends to both type and particular object. According to Amfo (2007) and Gundel et al (1999), this type is appropriate for using all unstressed pronouns The use of it may be felicitous since the referent is in the current center of attention. They have good memory and good articulation so they can give clear oral data

They are mentally prepared to be informant

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