Vocatives as attitudinal markers: The Tunisian Arabic particle ha:

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2024.06.010

Amel Khalfaoui

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Abstract

Based on the analysis of a linguistic corpus, this study uses relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995) to demonstrate that the Tunisian Arabic particle ha:, which has never received any research attention, acts as an attitudinal marker in addition to its vocative function. Namely, ha: is restricted to utterances in which the speaker is expressing negative emotion or a subtype of positive emotion that can only be directed at the addressee. The data analysis shows that, unlike its relatively unmarked and well-studied counterpart ya:, ha: is restricted in terms of its frequency of distribution and the types of speaker emotions and attitudes expressed in the utterance in which it occurs. This study argues that ha: encodes a procedure which instructs the hearer to recognize the speaker's emotion or attitude expressed toward them in the utterance. The particle ha: therefore, serves as an explicit additional guarantee of relevance that encourages the hearer to look for additional contextual assumptions in order to achieve the speaker's desired interpretation.

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作为态度标记的词汇：突尼斯阿拉伯语微粒 ha：

基于对语言语料库的分析，本研究使用相关性理论（Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995）来证明突尼斯阿拉伯语微粒 ha:（该微粒从未受到任何研究的关注）除了其声母功能外，还具有态度标记的作用。也就是说，"哈："仅限于说话者表达消极情绪或积极情绪的一种亚类型的语句，这种情绪只能针对对象。数据分析结果表明，与相对无标记和研究较多的同义词 ya: 不同，ha: 的分布频率以及在出现该词的语篇中说话人所表达的情感和态度类型都受到限制。本研究认为，"哈："编码一种程序，指示听话人识别说话人在语篇中对他们表达的情感或态度。因此，"哈："微粒是一种明确的相关性附加保证，它鼓励听话人寻找更多的语境假设，以实现说话人所希望的解释。

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Journal of Pragmatics Multiple-

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219

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