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

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