Discourse Pragmatics

Pragmatika Diskurtsiboa

About this concept

Pragmatic features: hedging (agian, beharbada), fillers (ba, bueno, ederki), politeness strategies (formal zu vs. familiar hi), turn-taking markers, and indirect speech acts in Basque conversation.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level C2.

Examples

Ba, ez dakit zer esan.Well, I don't know what to say. (filler)

Agian arrazoi duzu.Perhaps you are right. (hedging)

Mesedez, egin zenezake?Could you please do it? (polite)

Ederki ba!All right then! (conversational closer)

Prerequisite

Discourse Markers and ConnectorsC1

More C2 concepts

Dialectal VariationDialektoak Archaic and Literary Verb FormsAditz Zaharrak eta Literarioak Idiomatic Expressions and ProverbsEsamoldeak eta Atsotitzak Administrative and Legal LanguageHizkera Administratiboa Media and Broadcasting BasqueHedabideetako Euskara

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