Contiguity (linguistics)
In semantics, contiguity ( Latin contiguus “adjacent”) denotes a text-constituting relation between lexemes that belong to the same semantic level. While the resumption of lexemes by Proformen - u. a. in relative clauses - cross- sentence references generated, contiguity relationships form the semantic framework of a text, e.g. B. by:
- Logical contiguity: question - answer, take-off - landing, beginning - end
- ontological contiguity: plant - root, pig - grunt
- cultural contiguity: operation - hospital, train - rail
- situational contiguity: here - there, I - you
Continuities thus also represent fields of knowledge, e.g. B. by using a lexeme in a specific collocation :
- "Turn" and "wind" in a meteorological context ,
- "Whip" and "cream" in one recipe,
- "Crash" and "course" in a stock market report.
Contiguity is a constitutive characteristic of so-called "indirect anaphoric" relationships ( bridging ) within anaphorics .
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- ↑ Hadumod Bußmann : Lexicon of Linguistics (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 452). Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-45201-4 , p. 269.
- ↑ Eva Schoenke: TEXTLINGUISTICS glossary .