The Marker 'You See': Cognitive-Pragmatic and Socio-Pragmatic Observations

Authors

  • Mirjana Mišković-Luković

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.3

Keywords:

higher-level explicature, implicature, mood indicators, perception verbs, pragmatic markers, relevance

Abstract

This article sets out to explore various aspects of the linguistic existence of the pragmatic marker you see in order to take a general understanding of its role in communication. The article is organised in the following way. The first part focuses on the aspects of relevance theory that are crucial for a semantic-pragmatic analysis couched within this theoretic framework. The second part presents the data that served as input to my subsequent argumentation and conclusions. The third part speculates on the origin of the marker, and discusses its relation to the so-called epistemic parentheticals. The fourth part deals with the linguistic semantic meaning of the marker, which is then checked against two different types of context: the context of mood indicators (part five) and real life co-text (part six). The final section summarises the findings.

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Published

2011-11-13

How to Cite

Mišković-Luković, M. . (2011). The Marker ’You See’: Cognitive-Pragmatic and Socio-Pragmatic Observations. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 3(1), 49–62. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.3

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): BELLS - volume 3

Section

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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