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Six Discourse Markers In Tunisian Arabic: A Syntactic And Pragmatic Analysis, Chris Adams
Six Discourse Markers In Tunisian Arabic: A Syntactic And Pragmatic Analysis, Chris Adams
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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.
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.
The conclusions of this study focus on the conceptual and procedural content of each discourse marker. …