Przerywnik leksykalny w historycznojęzykowych badaniach socjopragmatycznych (na materiale Korpusu dawnych polskich tekstów dramatycznych (1772–1939))
Filler words in sociopragmatics research based on Corpus of Polish Dramatic Texts (1772–1939). A historical linguistics approach

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to describe and analyze one of the exponents of colloquialism – the filler words, both when it comes to frequency and statistics. The historical linguistics research is based on the Corpus of Polish Dramatic Texts (1772–1939). The analysis is sociopragmatically oriented, i.e. it shows the relationship between the use of the filler words (560 uses) and the age, sex, and social status of the users. There are three essen- tial pragmatic functions that these expressions can perform in an utterance (expressive, retardative, phatic).

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