Buzanov A., Bychkova P., Molchanova A., Postnikova A., Ryzhova D., Stanković M., Multilingual Pragmaticon, 2021, available at http://bit.ly/multipragmaticon
What Are Discourse Formulae?
We define discourse formulae as multiword idiomatic reactions to another utterance.
These units are evidently pragmatic,
because they only occur in a dialogue and express the speaker’s attitude to the interlocutor’s words.
DFs form a well-defined, though not a closed class of linguistic items.
Instead, this class appears to be subject to constant renovation,
and thus provides a very rich basis for the analysis of the pragmaticalization processes.
Database
Our database includes DFs from Russian,
Serbian and Slovenian (the list of languages
is constantly expanding). The database offers
detailed information on each formula, including
but not limited to glosses, general syntactic structure
and variation, main pragmatic function, additional
semantics and the type of the context. More information
on the database structure and possible queries can be
found here.
About Us
The project is created by the following
faculty and students of School of Linguistics
(HSE University, Moscow):
