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3. Kamo , an attitudinal pragmatic marker of Macedonian
Abstract
Exploring the properties of the Macedonian pragmatic marker kamo in six types of linguistic structure within the relevance-theoretic framework, Sévigny demonstrates that kamo is an indicator of the speaker’s dissociative attitude towards a belief in the hearer’s ability and willingness to perform a certain action. In this way, kamo is defined as encoding procedural information and contributing to the explicit side of communication by signaling the formation of an interpretive, higher-level explicature. The data for Sévigny’s paper were collected in the Egyptian-Macedonian speech community in Canada. This inimitable speech community is composed of immigrants and second and third generation Macedonian-Canadians who have remarkably preserved spoken fluency in the Macedonian variant of their parents.
Abstract
Exploring the properties of the Macedonian pragmatic marker kamo in six types of linguistic structure within the relevance-theoretic framework, Sévigny demonstrates that kamo is an indicator of the speaker’s dissociative attitude towards a belief in the hearer’s ability and willingness to perform a certain action. In this way, kamo is defined as encoding procedural information and contributing to the explicit side of communication by signaling the formation of an interpretive, higher-level explicature. The data for Sévigny’s paper were collected in the Egyptian-Macedonian speech community in Canada. This inimitable speech community is composed of immigrants and second and third generation Macedonian-Canadians who have remarkably preserved spoken fluency in the Macedonian variant of their parents.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgement and dedication ix
- 1. South Slavic discourse particles 1
- 2. Ama , a Bulgarian adversative connective 23
- 3. Kamo , an attitudinal pragmatic marker of Macedonian 45
- 4. Markers of conceptual adjustment 65
- 5. The Bosnian discourse particle ono 91
- 6. Reformulating and concluding 109
- 7. Pa , a modifier of connectives 133
- Note on contributors 163
- Index 165
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgement and dedication ix
- 1. South Slavic discourse particles 1
- 2. Ama , a Bulgarian adversative connective 23
- 3. Kamo , an attitudinal pragmatic marker of Macedonian 45
- 4. Markers of conceptual adjustment 65
- 5. The Bosnian discourse particle ono 91
- 6. Reformulating and concluding 109
- 7. Pa , a modifier of connectives 133
- Note on contributors 163
- Index 165
