A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles by Erik E Andvik

Sil International, Global Publishing. Paperback. New. Paperback. 136 pages. Dimensions: 8.8in. x 5.8in. x 0.6in.The focus of this volume is a small class of uninflectabe lexical items which occur postverbally, cannot take stress, and have no inherent lexcal-semantic meaning, but function as expressions of emotive modality, similar to intonation and gestures in English. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Norwegian Modal Particles1. 1 Description in traditional grammars1. 2 Stressed near-homophones1. 3 Delimiting modal particles in Norwegian1. 4 Regional variety considerations1. 5 Historical features2. Review of the Literature2. 1 German particle research2. 2 Other modal particle research3. Theoretical Framework3. 1 Grices theory of implicature3. 2 Speech act theory3. 3 Conversation analysis3. 4 Data corpus4. A Functional Analysis of jo and n4. 1 Jo4. 2 N5. Discussion and Conclusions5. 1 Modal particles versus sentence adverbials5. 2 Jo and n: A comparative analysis5. 3 Interaction as manipulation5. 4 ImplicationsReferences This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.