TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scivoletto,Giulio
TI  - Discourse Markers in Sicily: A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis 
T2  - Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023
SN  - 9789004521063
AV  - PC1801 
U1  - 457.9458 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Discourse markers
KW  - Sicilian language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Giulio Scivoletto -- Copyright Page; Giulio Scivoletto -- Motto; Giulio Scivoletto -- Acknowledgements; Giulio Scivoletto -- Introduction; Giulio Scivoletto -- Chapter 1 The Theoretical and Methodological Framework; Giulio Scivoletto -- Chapter 2 Synchronic Analysis; Giulio Scivoletto -- Chapter 3 Diachronic Analysis; Giulio Scivoletto -- Chapter 4 Sociolinguistic Analysis; Giulio Scivoletto -- Conclusion; Giulio Scivoletto -- Appendix 1 List of Diachronic Sources; Giulio Scivoletto -- Appendix 2 List of Transcription Symbols; Giulio Scivoletto -- Appendix 3 Socio-demographic Information about the Speakers; Giulio Scivoletto -- Bibliography; Giulio Scivoletto -- Index; Giulio Scivoletto
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004521063
ER  -