The Pragmatic Marker<i>like</i>from a Relevance-theoretic Perspective

Andersen, Gisle

doi:10.1075/pbns.57.09and

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“…Since my analysis of Arabic DMs expressing causality is seen from a relevance perspective, this section is going to give an idea about how DMs have been discussed under Relevance Theory (RT) framework by Blakemore (1987Blakemore ( , 2002, Rouchota (1998), Andersen (1998), Ler (2006), and Schourup (2011). RT marks a departure from the Gricean model by considering the hearer's interpretation of utterances to be based on a need for minimizing the cost of interpretation rather than a need to conform to the known maxims of conversation.…”

Section: Discourse Markers and Relevance Theorymentioning

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Discourse Markers of Causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian Dialects: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective

Bidaoui

2016

Open Linguistics

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Discourse markers in this paper are examined from a relevance theoretic perspective which highlights their contribution to the process of inference and are considered elements that encode procedural meaning. A total of 24 participants from three Arabic speaking countries: Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt took part in the study. The data used for the study was elicited through two tasks: informal multi-party conversation and structured interviews. The results show how the meaning of causality as a pragmatic variable (Schneider & Barron 2008;Terkourafi 2011) is realized by means of different pragmatic variants.

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Section: Discourse Markers and Relevance Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourse Markers of Causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian Dialects: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective

Bidaoui

2016

Open Linguistics

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“…An alternative possibility is that likes highlight that what is said is only a partial reflection of what the speaker intends (Anderson, 1998;Schourup, 1985;Siegel, 2002), a discourse marker used to indicate an upcoming loose use of language (Fox Tree, 2006). Unlike other items called hedges, like cannot be equated to approximately (Anderson, 1998;Fox Tree, 2006;Fuller, 2003;Siegel, 2002;Underhill, 1988).…”

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Hedges enhance memory but inhibit retelling

Liu

Tree

2012

Psychon Bull Rev

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We examined the effects of hedges and the discourse marker like on how people recalled specific details about precise quantities in spontaneous speech. We found that listeners treated hedged information differently from like-marked information, although both are thought to be indicators of uncertainty or vagueness. In addition, hedges had different effects depending on whether speakers were (1) retelling conversations to another person or (2) answering questions about material they had heard. When retelling to another person, listeners were more likely to report information that was either unmarked or marked with a like than hedged information (Experiment 1). Yet when answering questions by themselves, hedges enhanced memory for details, in comparison with likes (Experiment 2). Hedges appear to provide pragmatic cues about what information is reliable enough to repeat in a conversational context. But although hedged information may be left out, it is not forgotten.

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“…Although my brief analysis was certainly embedded within a general analytical interest in markers' functions and a set of theoretical principles about discourse (Schiffrin 1994b: 416), I did not take these as my starting points (cf. the theory-driven approaches of Andersen 1998;Rouchota 1998;Shloush 1998). Rather, it was the data themselves that suggested the constraints and the analytical frameworks that would be most pertinent to understanding the use of and.…”

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confidence: 99%