35.694, Books: Modal particles in Italian: Favaro (2023)

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Date: 10-Jan-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Modal particles in Italian: Favaro (2023)


Title: Modal particles in Italian
Subtitle: Adverbs of illocutionary modification and sociolinguistic
variation
Series Title: Open Romance Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/382

Author: Marco Favaro
Abstract:

This study investigates the properties of a set of Italian adverbs
(among others: pure ‘also’, solo ‘only’, un po’ ‘a bit’) that, in
specific contexts of use, modify the speech acts in which they appear.
On the one hand, these elements specify the way in which a speech act
should be interpreted with reference to the specific interactional
context, modifying its illocutionary force. On the other hand, they
index presupposed/inferred meanings active in the common ground of the
interaction, integrating the speech act in the common ground. These
functions closely resemble those of the elements that, especially in
the German linguistic tradition, are called modal particles. Drawing
on original data from Italian – both from the standard language and
regional varieties – the goal of the study is to describe the
synchronic features of these elements and to explain the emergence of
the modal uses. For this purpose, it jointly employs theoretical
notions of pragmatics (speech act theory, inferences in interaction),
models of language change (reanalysis and conventionalization) and the
descriptive tools of sociolinguistic approaches. Through the
presentation of four case studies, integrating corpus and
questionnaire data, the present work gives a thorough analysis of the
modal functions and the contexts of use of the adverbs under
investigation: it explores their role at the semantics/pragmatics
interface, it discusses their place in a layered model of grammar and
it examines their distribution across different language varieties.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Italian (ita)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Areal Regions: Western Europe

Written In: English (eng)



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