Conversational routines, formulaic language and subjectification

Bladas, Òscar

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.04.009

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“…8 Escolta'm tu can be labelled as a conversational routine, that is, as a fixed form which carries out a regular pragmatic function (Wray 2002;Bladas 2012). Interestingly, other ambiguous tokens of tu were found in conversational routines in our data.…”

Section: Prosodymentioning

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“Que bé, tu! (« that’s great, you! »)”

Marti¹,

Serrano²

2016

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The Catalan second person singular (2sg) pronoun tu (you) has acquired a wide range of pragmatic values in spoken registers that have received little or no attention from scholars in the field. The aim of the present article is to analyse a particular emerging use of the 2sg pronoun tu from a corpus-based perspective. In the light of Grammaticalisation Theory, it is argued that whereas in some contexts this pronoun maintains all or part of its referential function (e.g. as subject or as a vocative, respectively), in other contexts its use is very similar to that of an emphatic pragmatic marker. Data drawn from three spoken corpora suggest that the pronoun has consolidated this new use. Prosodic evidence is also provided to show the semantic and pragmatic changes undergone by the pronoun.

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Section: Prosodymentioning

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Serrano²

2016

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“…There are different kinds of formulaic chunks such as conversational routines and idiomatic verbal phrases. Bladas's (2012) analysis of Catalan formulaic language indicates that prototypical conversational routines (such as bon profit 'enjoy your meal') undergo increase of subjectivity, whereas idiomatic verbal phrases (such as fer campana 'to play truant, lit. to make bell') do not.…”

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Semantics and chunking in written and conversational discourses

2017

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Although much has been written about the differences between written and conversational discourses, less work has been done on how these two discourse types differ in terms of chunking patterns. This study investigates the different meanings and chunking patterns two words have in Mandarin written and conversational discourses. To overcome the problem of comparability between written and conversational corpora, instead of using a single word, I use two near-synonymous Mandarin words, zhihou and yihou, both of which mean roughly ‘after’ or ‘later,’ and compare their meaning and chunking patterns in written and spoken corpora. The investigation regarding semantic distinctions revealed that in both writing and conversation, zhihou favors past and yihou favors future, and that in writing but not in conversation zhihou is more often used with immediate high transitivity actions and causal relations, whereas yihou is more often used with low transitivity states. Regarding chunking patterns, whereas conversation preserves different stages of chunking, written discourse mainly has the final clear-cut stage. This study demonstrates the importance of grounding grammatical investigations on discourse types and of the possible usefulness of using near-synonymous words or grammatical constructions as a way of getting round the problem of comparability.

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“…Il faut donc bel et bien comprendre contexte au sens de « situation » lorsque Hyvärinen (2011 : 11) parle d'une réalisation contextuelle de la fonction de certains phraséologismes (24) et également lorsque Klein & Lamiroy (2011 : 195) déclarent que les « phrases figées » -fort proches de nos ALS -, « ne prennent leur sens qu'à l'intérieur du contexte (25) dans lequel elles sont énoncées » (26) . Remarquons enfin que la notion de situation est souvent, il faut le dire, en grande partie intuitive et qu'il convient de lui conférer plus de rigueur, ce que tente d'ailleurs Bladas (2012) pour les formules de routine, en appliquant la notion de subjectivation.…”

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Kauffer

2013

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Conversational routines, formulaic language and subjectification

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

“Que bé, tu! (« that’s great, you! »)”

“Que bé, tu! (« that’s great, you! »)”

Semantics and chunking in written and conversational discourses

Le figement des « actes de langage stéréotypés » en français et en allemand

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