Beyond Yes and No: Forms and Functions of Polarity-Oriented Responses in Spoken Italian

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

10/GLOT-01 - Theories And History Of Languages

Description

The project investigates polarity-oriented responses in spoken Italian, focusing on short or semi-autonomous replies that manage confirmation, rejection, agreement, disagreement and stance in interaction. The study will analyse forms such as "certo, ovvio, va bene, ci sta, macché, eccome, figurati, mica tanto, assolutamente" in the KIParla corpus. The research combines a bottom-up exploration of conversational data with a top-down annotation of a controlled sample, considering form, polarity, sequential context and semantic-pragmatic dimensions such as epistemicity, evaluation, mirativity and counterexpectation. A selected subset of forms will also be examined diachronically to reconstruct processes of conventionalisation and pragmaticalisation. Expected outputs include an annotation grid, an annotated dataset, a functional taxonomy and scientific publications.

Job posting website

https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca

Funding body

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA - - DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUE, LETTERATURE E CULTURE MODERNE

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