Discourse Markers in Sicily
Title | Discourse Markers in Sicily PDF eBook |
Author | Giulio Scivoletto |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2023-01-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004521062 |
This is an in-depth analysis of discourse markers in Sicily that sheds light on what discourse-pragmatic functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social value is in the bilingual speech community.
Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
Title | Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine McDonald |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2018-07-11 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781107503403 |
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world.
Discourse Markers in Northern Popoloca
Title | Discourse Markers in Northern Popoloca PDF eBook |
Author | Polly Pat Machin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Popolocan languages |
ISBN |
Modal particles in Italian
Title | Modal particles in Italian PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Favaro |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2023-12-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 396110428X |
This study investigates the properties of a set of Italian adverbs (among others: pure ‘also’, solo ‘only’, un po’ ‘a bit’) that, in specific contexts of use, modify the speech acts in which they appear. On the one hand, these elements specify the way in which a speech act should be interpreted with reference to the specific interactional context, modifying its illocutionary force. On the other hand, they index presupposed/inferred meanings active in the common ground of the interaction, integrating the speech act in the common ground. These functions closely resemble those of the elements that, especially in the German linguistic tradition, are called modal particles. Drawing on original data from Italian – both from the standard language and regional varieties – the goal of the study is to describe the synchronic features of these elements and to explain the emergence of the modal uses. For this purpose, it jointly employs theoretical notions of pragmatics (speech act theory, inferences in interaction), models of language change (reanalysis and conventionalization) and the descriptive tools of sociolinguistic approaches. Through the presentation of four case studies, integrating corpus and questionnaire data, the present work gives a thorough analysis of the modal functions and the contexts of use of the adverbs under investigation: it explores their role at the semantics/pragmatics interface, it discusses their place in a layered model of grammar and it examines their distribution across different language varieties.
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families
Title | Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families PDF eBook |
Author | A. Rubino |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2014-04-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137383682 |
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Ancient Greek Linguistics
Title | Ancient Greek Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Felicia Logozzo |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 874 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110551756 |
The volume assembles about 50 contributions presented at the Intenational Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held in Rome, March 2015. This Colloquium opened a new series of international conferences that has replaced previous national meetings on this subject. They embrace essential topics of Ancient Greek Linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: particles and their functional uses; phonology; tense, aspect, modality; syntax and thematic roles; lexicon and onomastics; Greek and other languages; speech acts and pragmatics.
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families
Title | Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families PDF eBook |
Author | A. Rubino |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2014-04-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137383682 |
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.