Aug 2026· Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association· 0 citations· 40 references
Abstract
We analyze the use and distribution of Spanish synthetic and periphrastic future-inflected
wh
-interrogatives in a corpus of informal Spanish conversations, within Linell’s (2009) Dialogical Theory of
Language. Our corpus analysis reveals that future-inflected interrogatives realize three types of discourse functions: information
requests, interactional challenges, and requests for inference, each clearly distinguishable in terms of their distribution at the
sentence and discourse level. The results highlight the importance of speaker attitude and, particularly, their expectations
regarding the answerability of the request. Use of the synthetic future is common in requests to inference, in which the hearer is
not expected to be able to answer the question, whereas use of the periphrastic future is prototypical in requests for information
and interactional challenges, indicating a grammaticalization path towards modal meanings. Our findings underscore the value of
corpus-based pragmatic analysis for understanding how grammatical choices reflect interactional meaning-making.
This study investigates the contribution of lexical and grammatical modality devices towards conveying intentionality in media discourse through a comparative analysis of feature journalism articles from The Times of India (TOI) and The Los Angeles Times (The LA Times). Mixed-methods corpus-assisted discourse analysis...
S. Rajeswari· Studies in Linguistics, Cult...· 0 citations
This paper examines a little-known composite second-person plural pronoun that has received no systematic
attention in the historical-linguistic literature to date:
among(st)-you
. Drawing on a broad range of textual
sources, we first map the geographical distribution of this pronoun across the anglophone world...
Bart Jacobs, S. Goyette, Mikael Parkvall· English World-Wide. A Journa...· 0 citations
Despite extensive research on the topic, the divide between what is gestural and what is properly linguistic in the case
of classifier predicates is still a matter of controversy. In this paper, we adopt the analysis according to which classifier predicates
involve the co-utterance of a fully linguistic unit and...
A. Dadone, Carlo Cecchetto· Sign Language & Linguist...· 0 citations
This article examines the linguistic change undergone by the verb
valer
, which gave rise to the pragmatic marker
vale
(‘ok’). On the one hand, it seeks to identify the context(s) in which the construction was coopted and explore the relational links (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013). On the other, it aims to clarif...
Ana Belén Llopis Cardona· International Review of Prag...· 0 citations
This research focuses on the pragmatic functions of the discourse particles no and nu in the Iźva dialect of the Komi language. The study is based on contemporary spoken-language material. No and nu appear to carry the same functions, with the exception of the confirming stand-alone use, which is restricted to no. The...
Eda-Riin Tuuling· Eesti ja soome-ugri keeletea...· 0 citations
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