Publications

Publication details [#7307]

Östman, Jan-Ola. 1979. On the pragmatic meaning of textual particles. In Hammarberg, Björn, ed. Kontrastiv lingvistik och sekundärspraksforskning: Föredrag vid en konferens i Abo och Stockholm, 13-14 februari 1979. Institutionen för lingvistik. pp. 171–191.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatic particle | text theory

Language as a subject

English | Finnish | Swedish

Annotation

The aim is to pin down what is meant by saying that a linguistic element has a 'pragmatically governed meaning', and to show the impact of this view on the analysis of textual particles in general, and a contrastive English-Swedish-Finnish analysis in particular.