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Date: 10-Dec-2010
From: Valandis Bardzokas [valandis.bardzokas at gmail.com]
Subject: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek '?iati' and 'epei?i'
 

	
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From: Valandis Bardzokas [valandis.bardzokas at gmail.com]
Subject: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek '?iati' and 'epei?i'

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Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2010 

Author: Valandis Bardzokas

Dissertation Title: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek '?iati'
and 'epei?i' 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)


Dissertation Director(s):
Eliza Kitis
Ioannis Veloudis
Elly Ifantidou

Dissertation Abstract:

The current thesis undertakes a pragmatic exploration of the finely-grained
distinctions in meaning between the two prototypical causal subordinators
in Modern Greek with the widest range of application in discourse: '?iati'
and 'epei?i'. By way of reaction to the problems besetting the
implementation of the Gricean model of meaning analysis in  the causal
investigation conducted and, also, in acknowledgment of the requirement for
a more cognitively realistic orientation of pragmatic analysis, an
alternative view is offered in terms of the versatile, as it turns out,
methodological apparatus that relevance theory seems to afford in the
interest of detailed descriptions of meaning. The present description of
causal meaning relies on the major distinction in interpretation that has
been designed in this framework as a point of reference in classifications
of discourse markers, i.e. conceptual vs. procedural encoding, and has been
regularly employed in this direction in the relevant literature. In this
line of argumentation, it is shown that, contrary to expectations based on
first impressions, the two connectives under scrutiny are not
interchangeable in context. Rather, it transpires from a range of
contextual uses that 'epei?i' represents the marker of causality par
excellence encoding conceptual relations between propositionally explicit
clauses, while '?iati' serves as a multi-functional marker that can act
either conceptually or procedurally, though in mutually exclusive terms. 




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