A Dialectial Analysis of Grammatical Terms Defining The English Articles

A Dialectial Analysis of Grammatical Terms Defining The English Articles

Jang, Yunsang

This study looks into the English article system from the perspective of dialectics. The goal of the study is to enlarge the scope of understanding the English article system by demonstrating that at the very elementary comminicative level is is more appropriately characterized as a relational dialectial system rather than a simple binary one as described in most traditional pedagogical frammar boks. This study tries to reach this goal by interpreting such key metalingustic notions as anaphoric generic uniquenness etc as well as the three main descriptors of the English articles which involve article definite and indefinite For Plato dialogues or our Daily communicational acts are fundamentally dialectial. Thus the base reasoning fort his stady is that if we understand the Notion related to dialectic or dialectial acts better this will in tum help us understand our own dialogical acts in general and the English articles as a key dialogical marker in particular.

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2011-05

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