LINGUIST List 21.5014 Sat Dec 11 2010 Diss: Pragmatics: Bardzokas: 'Causality and Connectives: A study on...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Valandis Bardzokas , Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek 'γiati' and 'epeiδi' Message 1: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek 'γiati' and 'epeiδi' Date: 10-Dec-2010 From: Valandis Bardzokas <valandis.bardzokasgmail.com> Subject: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek 'γiati' and 'epeiδi' E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Program: Department of Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Valandis Bardzokas Dissertation Title: Causality and Connectives: A study on Modern Greek 'γiati' and 'epeiδi' Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Subject Language(s): Greek (ell) Dissertation Director: Eliza Kitis Ioannis Veloudis Elly Ifantidou Dissertation Abstract: The current thesis undertakes a pragmatic exploration of the finely-grained distinctions in meaning between the two prototypical causal subordinators in Modern Greek with the widest range of application in discourse: 'γiati' and 'epeiδi'. By way of reaction to the problems besetting the implementation of the Gricean model of meaning analysis in the causal investigation conducted and, also, in acknowledgment of the requirement for a more cognitively realistic orientation of pragmatic analysis, an alternative view is offered in terms of the versatile, as it turns out, methodological apparatus that relevance theory seems to afford in the interest of detailed descriptions of meaning. The present description of causal meaning relies on the major distinction in interpretation that has been designed in this framework as a point of reference in classifications of discourse markers, i.e. conceptual vs. procedural encoding, and has been regularly employed in this direction in the relevant literature. In this line of argumentation, it is shown that, contrary to expectations based on first impressions, the two connectives under scrutiny are not interchangeable in context. Rather, it transpires from a range of contextual uses that 'epeiδi' represents the marker of causality par excellence encoding conceptual relations between propositionally explicit clauses, while 'γiati' serves as a multi-functional marker that can act either conceptually or procedurally, though in mutually exclusive terms. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.