Towards the collective anaphors: associative analysis of member/collection relation in prose works of Christine de Pizan

Abstract

In the world of text based on subjective perception, thematic progression is not always logical from the point of view of orientation of information. Sometimes, after finishing reading the text seemingly associative structures, as may be observed in the case of collective anaphors based on the member/collection relation, turn out not to be associative structures at all. They refer to the information that has been presented before without continuity of information kept by other anaphors. In the presence of such a structure, it seemed logical to isolate hyperthemes functioning in all the work and not only within individual chapters. Nouns meaning affinity may function in the structure of an associative anaphor if indirectly or directly a collective entity may be found.