Discourse Markers in Sicily

A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis

AvGiulio Scivoletto

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del 21 i serien Studies in Pragmatics

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-18
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:511 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Pragmatics
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004521056

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Giulio Scivoletto, Ph.D. (2019), University of Bergamo & University of Pavia, is a research fellow at the University of Catania, where he teaches Italian Sociolinguistics. His main research interests include semantic-pragmatic change, language contact, sociolinguistic variation, and educational linguistics.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 The Theoretical and Methodological Framework1.1 Discourse Markers (DM s) as a Research Object1.2 Methodology: Approach, Area, and Data of the Research2 Synchronic Analysis2.1 The Case of arà2.2 The Case of mentri3 Diachronic Analysis3.1 The Evolution of DM s: General Issues3.2 Reconstructing the Evolution of arà3.3 Reconstructing the Evolution of mentri4 Sociolinguistic Analysis4.1 DM s and Language Contact in the Repertoire4.2 DM s and Social Meaning in the CommunityConclusionAppendix 1: List of Diachronic SourcesAppendix 2: List of Transcription SymbolsAppendix 3: Socio-demographic Information About the Speakers (cf. § 4.2.1)BibliographyIndex