The Realization of Text Coherence Through Personal Pronouns in Albanian, English, and German language

doi:10.7176/jlll/84-01

Abstract

‘Coherence’ as a linguistic notion is one of the seven basic criteria of textuality (Dressler 1981). There are many linguistic elements through them coherence can be achieved, but the focus of this article will be the personal pronoun in the Albanian, English, and German language. The reason of conducting such a contrastive research consists of three guidelines: First, although Albanian, German and English belong to the same language family: Indo-European, also they are inflectional languages, but they have their own mechanism expressing linguistic phenomena. Secondly, the Albanian language, building an independent group within the Indo-European family group, provides some differences in the morpho-syntactic level compared to German and English as languages of the same group. Third, personal pronouns are cohesion means in German and English, but they are coherence means in Albanian.This article focuses not only to express the linguistic differences of the realization of text coherence trough personal pronouns in Albanian, German and English, but also builds an methodological-didactic frame, especially for learners of German and English to avoid mistakes in the process of text constitution in these languages. Keywords: Personal pronouns, text coherence, cohesion, Albanian, German, English. DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/84-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2021

Highlights

1 Introduction The aim of this article is to treat the problem of the realization of text coherence through personal pronouns in Albanian, German, and English language
4 Conclusions German, English and Albanian belong to the same language family, they have their own peculiarities and turn out to have obvious contrasts in the syntagmatic level
While the pronoun as part of speech morphologically does not differ much in Albanian from German and English, in its function as an element of textual constitution it has great divergences compared to the two languages examined in this paper

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The aim of this article is to treat the problem of the realization of text coherence through personal pronouns in Albanian, German, and English language. Nowadays when in North Macedonia and the whole Balkan region English and German have become primary languages in the life and school. Being a teacher of the Albanian language for more than 1 decade, I have realized that the curricula offer only a surface treat of the grammar knowledge. Even the teachers do not go beyond the curricula. Grammar phenomena are taught only formally, they are not treated within the context and everyday situations. As Humbold says, are not static entities, but very dynamic and we teachers must do our job good and right

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