Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis

<p>The following study is a description and analysis of six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic. In it I will attempt to determine the syntactic and pragmatic roles of each marker, describing its function in discourse. The final analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of relevance theory.</p> <p>I have based my study on thirty-two (32) texts in Tunisian Arabic, looking at frequently-occurring discourse markers in these texts and analyzing them based on their discourse roles in terms of local cohesion and pragmatic inference.</p> <p>The conclusions of this study focus on the conceptual and procedural content of each discourse marker. I have attempted to identify the syntactic and pragmatic role of all six markers, looking at their argumentative functions in discourse. The result is a unified pragmatic function for each discourse marker.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Adams, Chris

Contributors dc:contributor

• Regina Blass

• Arabic
• discourse
• pragmatics
• syntax
• Tunisia
• Linguistics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.und.edu/theses/991

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.und.edu:theses-1993