Discourse markers in Sicily: a synchronic, diachronic, and sociolinguistic analysis

"When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: "Arà, che si dice?" ('Hey there, how you doing?'). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in - arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her su...

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1. Verfasser: Scivoletto, Giulio 1989- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in pragmatics volume 21
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Zusammenfassung:"When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: "Arà, che si dice?" ('Hey there, how you doing?'). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in - arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there, and a way of prompting me to start our conversation. The fact she used Sicilian had a clear meaning too: the vernacular indicates a shared social identity. In a nutshell, this book analyses the cases of Sicilian arà and mentri to understand the complexity of discourse markers: what functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social meaning is in a bilingual speech community"
Beschreibung:IX, 217 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9789004521056

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