Unexpectedness and its pragmatic markers in standard serbian
The paper sets about to identify something researchers fail to consider: the principles that in Standard Serbian govern the occurrence of the pragmatic devices već, još, još uvek, and više (ne..) by means of which the speaker discloses that the information about an actual state of affairs he is givi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Južnoslovenski Filolog |
| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2004/0350-185X0460015I.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper sets about to identify something researchers fail to consider: the principles that in Standard Serbian govern the occurrence of the pragmatic devices već, još, još uvek, and više (ne..) by means of which the speaker discloses that the information about an actual state of affairs he is giving to his conversation partner happens to be an unexpected news for him. It highlights also the informational effects of vec on somebody who is listening to the conversation between the speaker and the addressee but who does not share in all details their stock of knowledge about the conversational topic and it rises the relevant question of the theoretical status of such effects. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-185X |