menionarea

Menionarea is a linguistic term used to describe the act of mentioning something in speech or writing. It is a nominalization derived from the Romanian verb a menționa (to mention) and is employed in discourse analysis and related fields to refer to when a speaker or writer brings an entity into focus by referencing it explicitly.

In practice, menionarea concerns how entities are introduced or referenced in discourse. It encompasses the various ways a referent is made present to the listener or reader, including the choice of referential form (proper name, definite description, pronoun) and its position within the information structure. Analysts may distinguish initial mentions, which introduce a new referent, from reiterative mentions, which reintroduce an already established referent, and examine how these choices affect coherence and topic management.

Usage notes: In Romanian, more common terms for the act of mentioning include menționare or mențiune; menionarea appears in some analytical or descriptive contexts as a variant. The concept also has cross-linguistic parallels in discourse studies, where similar notions describe how speakers manage reference, deixis, and continuity across sentences or turns in conversation.

See also: reference in discourse, referential expression, information structure, deixis, linguistic terminology.