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Publication details [#42565]

Tchizmarova, Ivelina K. 2005. Hedging functions of the Bulgarian discourse marker xajde. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (8) : 1143–1163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse marker | hedge | politeness | speech act

Language as a subject

Bulgarian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses speech act and politeness theory to analyze the Bulgarian discourse marker 'xajde' (‘come on/let's/why don’t we,…’), focusing mainly on its hedging functions in informal symmetrical discourse.