{"product_id":"discourse-markers-in-sicily-a-synchronic-diachronic-and-sociolinguistic-analysis-9789004521056","title":"Discourse Markers in Sicily: A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: «Arà, che si dice?» (‘Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in – arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there, and a way of prompting me to start our conversation. The fact she used Sicilian had a clear meaning too: the vernacular indicates a shared social identity.  In a nutshell, this book analyses the cases of Sicilian arà and mentri to understand the complexity of discourse markers: what functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social meaning is in a bilingual speech community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures    Introduction    1 The Theoretical and Methodological Framework   1.1 Discourse Markers (DM s) as a Research Object   1.2 Methodology: Approach, Area, and Data of the Research    2 Synchronic Analysis   2.1 The Case of arà   2.2 The Case of mentri    3 Diachronic Analysis   3.1 The Evolution of DM s: General Issues   3.2 Reconstructing the Evolution of arà   3.3 Reconstructing the Evolution of mentri    4 Sociolinguistic Analysis   4.1 DM s and Language Contact in the Repertoire   4.2 DM s and Social Meaning in the Community    Conclusion    Appendix 1: List of Diachronic Sources  Appendix 2: List of Transcription Symbols  Appendix 3: Socio-demographic Information About the Speakers (cf. § 4.2.1)  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210848821591,"sku":"9789004521056","price":127.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discourse-markers-in-sicily-a-synchronic-diachronic-and-sociolinguistic-analysis-9789004521056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}