A model and a methodology for the study of pragmatic markers: the semantic field of expectation  

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Aijmer, Karin ; Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 36 no. 10 (Oct. 2004), page 1781-1805.
Topik: Pragmatic markers; Contrastive linguistics; Evidentiality; Translation corpora; Semantic field; Expectation; Swedish; Dutch
Fulltext: Aijmer_K.pdf (248.4KB)

Isi artikel

In this article, a model and a methodology are proposed for the study of pragmatic markers. The proposal not only contributes to the theoretical discussion but also has advantages from a descriptive point of view. As to the model, it draws on a number of notions which so far have not been brought together in a way which gives a satisfactory explanation for the existence and functioning of pragmatic markers. These notions, reflexivity and indexicality, are integrated here with a view of modality and evidentiality which, based on White (2003), goes beyond truth-functional accounts in its heteroglossic and rhetorical perspectives. From a methodological point of view, the article proposes the use of translations as a heuristic device for setting up lexical fields. Following Dyvik (in press), translation corpora are used to refine the descriptions of semantic and pragmatic relations between items in the same field. To illustrate the methodology, we have opted for the semantic field of ‘expectation’ in English, and we look at equivalents of the pragmatic markers in Swedish and in Dutch.

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