Grammar and social agency. The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements
- Sentence and construction types generally have more than one pragmatic function. Impersonal deontic declaratives such as ‘it is necessary to X’ assert the existence of an obligation or necessity without tying it to any particular individual. This family of statements can accomplish a range of functions, including getting another person to act, explaining or justifying the speaker’s own behavior as he or she undertakes to do something, or even justifying the speaker’s behavior while simultaneously getting another person to help. How is an impersonal deontic declarative fit for these different functions? And how do people know which function it has in a given context? The authors address these questions using video recordings of everyday interactions among speakers of Italian and Polish.
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| Author: | Giovanni Rossi, Jörg ZinkenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-54769 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0083 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0070 |
| ISSN: | 0097-8507 |
| Parent Title (English): | Language |
| Publisher: | Linguistic Society of America |
| Place of publication: | Washington, DC |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/11/07 |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | agency; declarative; deontic; grammar; impersonal; pragmatics; social interaction |
| Volume: | 92 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page Number: | 30 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | nein |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |