Selected Pragmatic Functions of the Operator nie wiem in Polish Spoken Language (A Corpus Analysis) Cover Image

Wybrane funkcje pragmatyczne operatora nie wiem w języku mówionym (analiza korpusowa)
Selected Pragmatic Functions of the Operator nie wiem in Polish Spoken Language (A Corpus Analysis)

Author(s): Magdalena Łysik
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: metatext; metatextual expression; mental predicate;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of the expression nie wiem as a metatextual operator in Polish spoken language. The author sets out to search for features indicating a metatextual use of this expression, and compares it with a mental predicate occurring in the same grammatical form. The main focus of the paper is a description of the pragmatic functions of nie wiem with respect to operators organizing the statement and references to the statement. Additionally, the functions of the filled pause are overviewed.

  • Issue Year: 75/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 101-114
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish