South Slavic Discourse Particles
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.
Mirjana Mišković-Luković
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mirjana Mišković-Luković plays a role.
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Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Articles
2010 4. Markers of conceptual adjustment: Serbian baš and kao South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Article
This paper employs the relevance-theoretic framework to account for the linguistic meaning and pragmatic contribution of two Serbian particles – baš and kao. Starting from a categorization of relations between lexical and communicated concepts, Miškovic-Lukovic shows that baš and kao play the same… read more
2010 1. South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2001 The particle baš in contemporary Serbian Pragmatics 11:1, pp. 17–30 | Article
The paper is a relevance-theoretic account of the meaning of the Serbian particle baš, once a content word, now a pragmatic particle restricted to informal discourse. It is argued that the emphatic and specificatory senses of baš can be subsumed under a single description of the particle as a… read more