“"Pronominal reference and its importance in textual cohesion” and an applied model for discourse analysis on an article by Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi using generative artificial intelligence technology “ChatGPT”

Document Type : Articles and research theses.

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Educational supervisor at the Riyadh Education Administration

Abstract

The study relied on discourse analysis, which is considered a rich and fertile specialty that has gained its cognitive merit and scientific sovereignty because it provides the researcher with different methodological approaches to analyzing different texts and discourses in view of the different linguistic and critical schools and their cognitive references. It has become an established science on its own with its own theories, cognitive foundations, subject matter, methods, means of analysis, and results. It has dealt with the concept of Consistency and its elements, the most important of which is referral and its meaning linguistically and idiomatically Its types and the effect of pronominal referral in particular on the cohesion of the text through the use of the generative artificial intelligence application ChatGPT. This is a first experience to present an applied model for analyzing discourse on an article by Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi using the generative artificial intelligence technology ChatGPT, as the application presents the concept of coherence and its most important elements and contains a theoretical clarification of the referral. And everything related to it and the application of discourse analysis to pronominal reference, which is one of Tools that contribute, along with others, to achieving text cohesion and consistency. The referral tool, which plays a fundamental role in linking the parts of a single sentence on the one hand, and linking several sentences with each other in such a way that a comprehensive text or discourse is formed, as the role of textual referral in the cohesion of texts is explained based on an article. By Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi. The researcher reviewed, revised and discussed the results of the analysis provided by ChatGPT and then presented it again through.
The results concluded that: internal reference alone performs the function of cohesion, and that the correspondence between the pronoun and its referent helps to connect parts of the text and its flow. Therefore, there appears to be an urgent need to search for a way to remove confusion in the reference of the pronoun. The study also found that cohesion does not depend on the presence of reference or other means of textual cohesion alone. Rather, the reality of the matter is that these means - despite their importance - may not alone be sufficient in giving The coherence of the text.

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