Discourse markers in sicily : a synchronic, diachronic, and sociolinguistic analysis / Giulio Scivoletto
"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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Pragmatics |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : BRILL, 2022. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Pragmatics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9789004521063 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Giulio Scivoletto |