Discourse Markers in Sicily: A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis

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Giulio Scivoletto

Discourse Markers in Sicily

A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Giulio Scivoletto

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Brill
18 August 2022

Sociolinguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon; Semantics

Series: Studies in Pragmatics

When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: «Arà, che si dice?» (‘Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in – arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there, and a way of prompting me to start our conversation. The fact she used Sicilian had a clear meaning too: the vernacular indicates a shared social identity.

In a nutshell, this book analyses the cases of Sicilian arà and mentri to understand the complexity of discourse markers: what functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social meaning is in a bilingual speech community.

By: Giulio Scivoletto
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 21
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 511g
ISBN: 9789004521056
ISBN 10: 9004521054
Series: Studies in Pragmatics
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 18 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giulio Scivoletto, Ph.D. (2019), University of Bergamo & University of Pavia, is a research fellow at the University of Catania, where he teaches Italian Sociolinguistics. His main research interests include semantic-pragmatic change, language contact, sociolinguistic variation, and educational linguistics.