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- Title
Pragmatic information in constructions: What do speakers generalize?
- Authors
Kuzai, Einat
- Abstract
Despite recent advances in Construction Pragmatics, a systematic way for delimiting coded pragmatic information has yet to be offered. This squib provides a step in establishing such an account by assessing what kind of pragmatic information speakers generalize from various usage-events. Drawing on findings from Conversation Analysis, I propose a distinction between pragmatic functions as speakers' actions, and interactional patterns as discourse-information sequences. A synchronic examination of the Hebrew multifunctional discourse marker ′at/a yode′a/′at (′know.prs.m/f.sg′) demonstrates the consistent use of the construction in an interactional pattern across numerous usage-events. A qualitative diachronic analysis of ′at/a yode′a/′at suggests that speakers may associate forms with interactional patterns rather than with functions. This preliminary evidence provides support for the generalization of interactional patterns.
- Subjects
DISCOURSE markers; CONVERSATION analysis; PRAGMATICS; HEBREW language; GENERALIZATION
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 1, p213
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00047.kuz