Abstract
THE IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RELATIONS IN THE TEXT – A COMPARISON BETWEEN GERMAN AND ALBANIAN LANGUAGES
This article aims at investigating cohesive and coherent devices contributing to the content of German and Albanian texts. The main purpose of this paper is the research of explicit and implicit relations in a text in which the relationships of different parts of the text are viewed in a contrastive aspect. The corpus constitutes of newspaper articles in German and their translation in Albanian. Explicit and implicit relationships of the text are compared to the forms in which they appear in the Albanian translation. The analysis is based on eight articles out of German newspapers which focus on Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo’s ex-president. These articles have been translated in Albanian by the Albanian journalist Enver Robelli and have been published in a collection alongside many other articles. The purpose of this comparison is to explore if Albanian and German texts use similar and/or different devices of cohesion and coherence, such as recurrence, pro-forms, tenses, conjunctions, lexical devices, which were compared to the forms in which they appear in Albanian.
Many pro-forms of anaphoric and cataphoric function were detected in these texts, yet it was evident that the anaphoric function was more frequent.
It is also important to mention recurrence, which has an important function to the macrostructure of the text. In some cases, the proper noun Rugova is not reiterated through a pronoun, but it recurs in the text. We assume that the reiteration of the personal pronoun Rugova emphasizes the importance of his personality.
Keywords
cohesion, cohesive devices, anaphora, cataphora, reference