Open AccessЗАСИЛЕНА, МОДНА УПОТРЕБА НА ВМЪКНАТО ДА [НАИСТИНА Е ТАКА] / A NEW FASHIONABLE USE OF PARENTHETICAL ДА [НАИСТИНА Е ТАКА] (YES [INDEED, THIS IS SO])
Author(s) -
CHRISTO STAMENOV
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bʺlgarski ezik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-3372
pISSN - 0005-4283
DOI - 10.47810/bl.68.21.04.12
Subject(s) - linguistics , pragmatics , notice , repetition (rhetorical device) , popularity , intonation (linguistics) , rhetorical question , emphasis (telecommunications) , modality (human–computer interaction) , psychology , computer science , political science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , social psychology , telecommunications , law
The goal of this notice is to draw the attention to a rhetorical device, currently gaining some popularity in public speech. It consists of pre-posing (i) da [‘(and) yes’] as a separate intonation group before a clause or its repetition before a series of clauses, with the pragmatic purpose of making the listener believe in what follows [‘yes indeed, this is so’] and in some cases maintaining links with what has already been said.Keywords: functions of da, emphasis, metalinguistic use, discourse, modality, pragmatics