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Volume 11, Issue 1
  • ISSN 1018-2101
  • E-ISSN: 2406-4238

Abstract

The paper is a relevance-theoretic account of the meaning of the Serbian particle , once a content word, now a pragmatic particle restricted to informal discourse. It is argued that the emphatic and specificatory senses of can be subsumed under a single description of the particle as a marker of non-loose use. The argumentation is based on the relevance-theoretic distinction between description and interpretation in language use and on the notion of loose talk. The main issue of how the particle contributes to the relevance of its host-utterance is anchored in a tripartite distinction: Conceptual/procedural, truth-functional/non-truth-functional, explicature/implicature. It is claimed that the particle is a procedural, non-truth-functional linguistic item that contributes to relevance by constraining the explicit content of the host-utterance.

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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): Literality; Loose talk; Pragmatic meaning; Relevance theory; Serbian particle
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