Discourse Pragmatics and Hedging

Pragmataic Dioscúrsa

About this concept

Discourse-level features: hedging (is dócha, b'fhéidir), tag questions (nach ea?), fillers (bhuel, tá a fhios agat), and the pragmatics of politeness and indirectness in Irish conversation.

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

Examples

Is dócha go bhfuil an ceart agat.I suppose you're right.

Tá sé go breá, nach ea?It's fine, isn't it?

Bhuel, tá a fhios agat féin.Well, you know yourself.

Ní fheadar an féidir liom...I wonder if I could... (indirect request)

Prerequisite

Precision and StyleC2

More C2 concepts

Dialectal VariationCanúintí Classical and Archaic IrishAn tSean-Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach Precision and StyleCruinneas agus Stíl Media and Broadcasting IrishGaeilge na Meán Literary Irish and New VocabularyGaeilge Liteartha agus Nua-Fhoclaíocht

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