New book: South Slavic Discourse Particles

[E Wayles Browne]

New book:
South Slavic Discourse Particles
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković
Georgetown University / University of Kragujevac

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 197

John Benjamins, 2010. ix, 166 pp.
Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged as invaluable devices for cutting-edge theories of the semantics/pragmatics interface. This book, which is a pioneering study in such linguistic phenomena in South Slavic languages, is also among the first of its kind for a related group of languages. It builds on the recent findings of some of the most influential linguistically-oriented theories, such as Relevance Theory, Argumentation Theory and coherence-based approaches to explain the meaning and use of certain discourse/pragmatic particles/markers in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovene. These particles/markers are part of the contemporary and historical lexicons of the South Slavic languages, varyin!
 g across regions and time, but also differing in origin. This book, which draws from naturally occurring data, written media and constructed examples, aims at a wider audience including scholars working in semantics/pragmatics and Slavic languages, and applied specialists interested in this area of research. The authors hope that this book will be conceived as a starting point for a structured inquiry into the flourishing field of discourse particles in South Slavic.
John Benjamins' website for the book, with samples and ordering information:
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20197

Table of contents

Preface
vii–viii
Acknowledgement and dedication
ix
1. South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction
Mirjana Mišković-Luković and Mirjana N. Dedaić
1–22
2. Ama, a Bulgarian adversative connective
Grace E. Fielder
23–44
3. Kamo, an attitudinal pragmatic marker of Macedonian
Alexandre Sévigny
45–63
4. Markers of conceptual adjustment: Serbian baš and kao
Mirjana Mišković-Luković
65–89
5. The Bosnian discourse particle ono
Aida Premilovac
91–108
6. Reformulating and concluding: The pragmatics of the Croatian discourse marker dakle
Mirjana N. Dedaić
109–131
7. Pa, a modifier of connectives: An argumentative analysis
Igor Ž. Žagar
133–162
Note on contributors
163–164
Index

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Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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