Speakerʼs Reference in Dialogic Communication in Slovak Language: Verbal Person versus Personal Pronoun Cover Image

Referencia na hovoriaceho v dialogickej komunikácii v slovenčine: verbálna osoba verzus osobné zámeno
Speakerʼs Reference in Dialogic Communication in Slovak Language: Verbal Person versus Personal Pronoun

Author(s): Jana Kesselová
Subject(s): Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Theory of Communication, Philology
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Personal deixis; social deixis; spoken communication; deictic center; Slovak language; the corpus-linguistic method;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a part of a wider study with the research aim to learn about Slovak-language users’ means of language that primarily focus on human as a (non-)participant of a communicative act (personal deixis) and as a bearer of social roles and relations (social deixis). The subject of this research is explicit self-reference of a speaker in a dialogic communication. By explicit self-reference we mean self-identification of a speaker using a combination of verbal flexion together with personal pronoun I (ja). The study examines the relationship between verb semantics and explicit selfreferencing on the data of the Corpus of Spoken Slovak.Key words: personal deixis, social deixis, spoken communication, deictic center, Slovak language, the corpus-linguistic method.

  • Issue Year: 53/2018
  • Issue No: 03+04
  • Page Range: 94-108
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak