Punctuation marks: procedural and conceptual uses

This paper concerns the shift of punctuation marks from signs in the written mode of language to the use of their names as lexical items in the spoken variety. The lexical use of these items in Modern Hebrew is shown to either display the original procedural function, whether organizational or attit...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 2003-07, Vol.35 (7), p.1031-1048
Main Author: Borochovsky Bar-Aba, Esther
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conceptual (meaning)
Discourse (markers)
Hebrew
Procedural (meaning)
Punctuation
Spoken (and written language)
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Summary:This paper concerns the shift of punctuation marks from signs in the written mode of language to the use of their names as lexical items in the spoken variety. The lexical use of these items in Modern Hebrew is shown to either display the original procedural function, whether organizational or attitudinal, or a conceptual semantic role in addition to, or instead of, their original procedural function. A correlation between form and function is demonstrated whereby the entities fulfilling a procedural function tend to be morpho-syntactically frozen and more loosely connected to the syntactic construction with which they co-occur, while the lexical entities functioning conceptually display a fuller syntactic and morpho-syntactic integration and show the expected productivity associated with the relevant central syntactic units.
ISSN:0378-2166
1879-1387
DOI:10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00189-3