2018
DOI: 10.14198/elua2018.anexo4.02
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Mitigation via exemplification in present-day Italian: A corpus-based study

Abstract: The paper addresses the pragmatic functions of exemplification in Italian by focusing on a set of exemplifying constructions such as non so (Eng. 'I don't know') and tipo (Eng. 'like'). Based on a corpus-based study, we may hypothesise that such constructions may be formally heterogeneous but all of them are employed to express mitigation. Indeed, they may be conceived as procedural tools to conceptualise pragmatic acts with different illocutionary force as examples of a wider set in order not to impose or to … Show more

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“…Ghezzi & Andorno, 2014;Voghera, 2013) or signal the exemplar value of a given referential expression, establishing a paradigmatic relation with other implicit or explicitly verbalized alternatives (e.g. Barotto, 2018;Lo Baido, 2018;Fiorentini, 2018a,b). For what concerns list constructions, a great deal of recent research has been devoted to elements -such as the English etcetera, and things like that, and stuff, and all -that are used in various languages to mark the conclusion of an open list and at the same time to signal the exemplar value of the previous elements, thus inviting the construction of a category based on these exemplars.…”
Section: Discourse Markers and Listsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ghezzi & Andorno, 2014;Voghera, 2013) or signal the exemplar value of a given referential expression, establishing a paradigmatic relation with other implicit or explicitly verbalized alternatives (e.g. Barotto, 2018;Lo Baido, 2018;Fiorentini, 2018a,b). For what concerns list constructions, a great deal of recent research has been devoted to elements -such as the English etcetera, and things like that, and stuff, and all -that are used in various languages to mark the conclusion of an open list and at the same time to signal the exemplar value of the previous elements, thus inviting the construction of a category based on these exemplars.…”
Section: Discourse Markers and Listsmentioning
confidence: 99%