The discourse marker well: A relevance-theoretical account

Jucker, Andreas H.

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“…(g) Jucker (1992) unifies the different senses of the definite article proposed by Quirk et al (1985) under RT. In general, the definite article makes reference to some identifiable person, object, concept, etc.…”

Section: Studies On Grammar From a Relevance-theoretic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 57%

“…(a) Undoubtedly, one of the most important contributions of RT to the study of grammar has resulted from the work by Blakemore (1987aBlakemore ( , 1987bBlakemore ( , 1988aBlakemore ( , 1988bBlakemore ( , 1989Blakemore ( , 1990Brockway, 1981Brockway, , 1982 on connectives, which has led to a real flow of studies in the same direction (see Ariel, 1988;Blass, 1988Blass, , 1990Blass, , 1993Gutt, 1988;Haegeman, 1993;Higashimori, 1992aHigashimori, , 1992bHigashimori, , 1994Higashimori, , 1995Higashimori, , 1997Itani, 1992;Jucker, 1993;Watts, 1986;Moeschler, 1989aMoeschler, , 1989bMoeschler, , 1993aRouchota, 1990Rouchota, , 1996Smith and Smith, 1988;Unger, forthcoming;W&S, 1993;Fretheim, 1997;Iten, 1997;Takeuchi, 1997). Going beyond the traditional approach which tends to a primary distinction between same-level relationship of elements (coordination, parataxis) and a hierarchy-based one (subordination, hypotaxis), a certain class of connectives including after all, so, but, whereas, etc.…”

Section: Studies On Grammar From a Relevance-theoretic Perspectivementioning

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Grammar: relevance-theoretic concerns

Yus¹

1997

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Relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986) provides an interesting cognitive framework for the study of how interpretation takes place in face-to-face interaction. However, the applicability of this theory extends beyond conversation and this article also outlines how grammar can be analysed from a relevance-theoretic perspective. The purpose of this article is to provide a review of different studies of grammatical aspects of sentences which overlap with more traditional approaches in order to obtain a more accurate and context-centred picture of grammar. The extensive bibliography provided will surely be useful as a starting point for analysts interested in grammar from a pragmatic perspective.

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Section: Studies On Grammar From a Relevance-theoretic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 57%

Section: Studies On Grammar From a Relevance-theoretic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Grammar: relevance-theoretic concerns

Yus¹

1997

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“…Filled pauses used in a phatic marker function are produced to introduce a new part of the utterance, or in cases where the speaker tries to expand the message by means of a more comprehensible form. This function overlaps with the function of discourse markers (Jucker 1993;Fox Tree-Schrock 2002).…”

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Filled pauses in Hungarian: Their phonetic form and function

Horváth¹

2010

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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Filled pauses are natural occurrences in spontaneous speech and they may turn up at any level of the speech planning process and in a number of functions. The aim of this paper is to find out whether the diverse functions of filled pauses correlate with diverse articulations resulting in diverse acoustic structures. Spontaneous narratives are used as research material. The duration of the filled pauses and the frequency values of their first two formants are analyzed. The most frequent form, schwa, shows function-dependent realizations as confirmed by the durational values and by the second formant values of these vowellike sounds.

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“…The initial Well, ... of Peter's reply is interesting. We mentioned above that Jucker (1993) has argued that well indicates that the currently most salient context is not the most relevant for the interpretation of the forthcoming utterance. According to either Zegarac's account or the procedural account suggested above, the context created by an utterance of how are you?…”

Section: Implications Of a Procedural Accountmentioning

confidence: 98%

Phatic interpretations: standarisation and conventionalisation

Nicolle¹,

Clark²

1998

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This paper builds on work by Zegarac and Clark (Zegarac and Clark, forthcoming; Zegarac, in press) on phatic communication. Zegarac and Clark define phatic interpretations as interpretations which depend on the recognition of a communicative intention (as defined by Sperber and Wilson 1986 and exploited in their definition of ostensive communication). This definition does not link phatic interpretations directly to social functions but does reflect the fact that phatic interpretations have social effects. The social effects follow from the fact that any act of ostensive communication is, by definition, social. Zegarac discusses how phatic interpretations become standardised and conventionalised. Here we explore the processes of standardisation and conventionalisation in more detail. A first glance at the phenomena suggests an interesting paradox. When a particular linguistic form becomes so frequently linked with phatic interpretations that this usage becomes conventionalised, Zegarac and Clark's definition seems to predict that utterances containing that form will no longer give rise to phatic interpretations (because the interpretation will depend on the linguistically-encoded meaning rather than on the recognition of a communicative intention). We consider an alternative approach to that proposed by Zegarac, which exploits the relevance-theoretic notion of procedural encoding. We show how such an approach might lead to the modification of a prediction of Zegarac and Clark, i.e. the claim that purely phatic interpretations arise only when non-phatic interpretations are not consistent with the principie of relevance.

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The discourse marker well: A relevance-theoretical account

Cited by 340 publications

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Grammar: relevance-theoretic concerns

Grammar: relevance-theoretic concerns

Filled pauses in Hungarian: Their phonetic form and function

Phatic interpretations: standarisation and conventionalisation

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