The Pragmatic particles of Singapore Colloquial English  

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Gupta, Fraser

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 1 (Jan. 1992), page 31-58.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Eleven pragmatic particles, loan from Southern varieteis of Chinese, are used in Singapore Colloguial English. They express varying degrees of commitment to an utterance, and can be arranged on a single scale of assertiveness. They fall into three main groups: contradictory, assertive, and tentative. This paper uses data from natural conversation in the home, from between, and with children acquiring Singapore Colloquial English as a native language. The pragmatic particles are acquired early snd without error. Previous analyses of the Singapore Colloquial English particles suggest that analysts disagree on the functions of the particles. Each particle appears to have a wide range of multiple functions. These apparently disparate functions can be reconciled if the pragmatic particles are examined in terms of a system of marking degree of essertion, which results in different funcntions when the same particle is uced in sentences of different types. No pragmatic particle in Singpore Colloquial English is associated with only one sentence type.

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