Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The paper analyses the Swedish modal particlesjuandvälas markers of engagement. This analysis finds support in the distribution and frequency ofjuandvälin a corpus of spoken Swedish along with an examination of existing accounts concerning the semantics of the investigated forms. Engagement encodes differences in the distribution of knowledge and/or attention between the speaker and the addressee, where the basic semantic contrast consists of the speaker asserting an assumption about the addressee’s knowledge of/attention to an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker.Juandvälare paradigmatically contrastive in signaling shared access to an event from the point of view of the speaker, or the addressee:jusignals shared access to an event and at the same time places the epistemic authority with the speaker, andvälsignals shared access to an event, placing the epistemic authority with the addressee. Analytical support forjuandvälas markers of engagement comes from the distribution of both forms with first person (jag), second person (du), and generic (man) subject pronouns.
Source: Folia Linguistica
Author: Henrik Bergqvist
Institution: Stockholm University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $215
Funder: Vetenskapsrådet
OpenAlex ID: W3091161300