Open AccessThe Function of Mitigation in Spoken Language.Analysis of tak skazat’ (Russian) and diciamo (Italian).
Author(s) -
Elizaveta Khachaturyan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
oslo studies in language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9639
DOI - 10.5617/osla.95
Subject(s) - linguistics , function (biology) , discourse marker , russian language , history , computer science , political science , philosophy , biology , genetics
The present article is dedicated to the analysis of one Italian and one Russian discourse marker (DM), both of which are formed with the verbum dicendi skazat'/dire («to say»): tak skazat' («so to say») and diciamo («let’s say»).
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