The Particle Ba In Contemporary Serbian  

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Miskovic, Mirjana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 11 no. 1 (2001)
Topik: Serbian particle; Relevance theory; Loose talk; Literality; Pragmatic meaning.

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The paper is a relevance-theoretic account of the meaning of the Serbian particle ba, once a content word, now a pragmatic particle restricted to informal discourse. It is argued that the emphatic and specificatory senses of ba can be subsumed under a single description of the particle as a marker of non-loose use. The argumentation is based on the relevance-theoretic distinction between description and interpretation in language use and on the notion of loose talk. The main issue of how the particle contributes to the relevance of its host-utterance is anchored in a tripartite distinction: Conceptual/procedural, truth-functional/non-truthfunctional, explicature/implicature. It is claimed that the particle ba is a procedural, non-truth-functional linguistic item that contributes to relevance by constraining the explicit content of the host-utterance.

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