CO MÓWIMY, MÓWIĄC POWIEDZMY?
What Do We Say, Saying powiedzmy (Let's Say)?

Summary/Abstract: Powiedzmy is a unit of language that differs from the imperative form (powiedzmy=let's tell) of identical shape. Out of two forms of powiedzmy in: O nagrodzie powiedzmy mu od razu, powiedzmy, przed zebraniem (Let's tell him immediately about the reward, let's say, before the meeting), I'm only interested in the second, parenthetical powiedzmy, preceeded and followed by a coma. It is the parenthetical function of powiedzmy that is the major concern of the present paper, which focuses mainly on semantic and pragmatic problems. The expression powiedzmy, which has been selected out of other units of identical form or units constituted by powiedzmy, is being examined in detail from the semantic point of view, in order to answer the question stated in the title of this article. As the result of the analysis concerning the meaning of powiedzmy, the author presents a preliminary explication of this expression.

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