A Case of Grammaticalization in modern swedish: the use of ba in adolescent speech  

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Erikson, Mats

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 1 (1995), page 19-48.
Fulltext: 17_01_Eriksson.pdf (1.61MB)

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the grammaticalization of the Swedish word bara (Eng. just) in present day adolescent speech. Bara (normally pronounced ba) has in the last fifteen years started to be used with two new functions in spoken, narrative discourse: to foreground central events and to introduce quotations. In the paper, it is demonstrated that the foregrounding function can be inferred from the meaning of bara in standard use, and how the quotative function has, subsequently, developed out of the foregrounding function. In both these developments, crucial characteristics of narratives, and the way quotations are used within these, play an important part. It is also shown that the development described constitutes an exception to an important assumption about the direction of grammaticalization, i.e. that the change proceeds from a propositional to a textual to an interpersonal meaning but not in the opposite direction. (Adolescent speech, grammaticalization, spoken narratives, quotation markers, Swedish.)

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