This paper deals with Bangla indeclinable ar to explore its role in conversational discourse. In doing so, the paper provides a detail study about ar in the Bangla language. This, in turn, helps to conceptualize how the occurrences of ar motivate a conversation in a pragmatic domain, in particular. More specifically, multiple interpretations of ar pose a particular challenge to semantics and pragmatics, which can be taken care of through the incorporation of phonological context. Phonological context contains information about speaker's intention and speaker's approach to their utterance. The paper discusses several criteria, namely the traditional and polysemous nature, intonational pattern, evidentiality etc., which are crucial in determining its role in structuring a conversation.
Keywords: particle ar; intonation; evidentiality
PovzetekČlanek se osredotoča na nesklonljivi ar v bengalščini in proučuje njegovo vlogo v govorjenem diskurzu ter s tem ponudi podrobno analizo o njegovi uporabi. Takšen pristop posledično omogoča tudi zaključke v obratni smeri in sicer o tem, kako pojavnost izraza ar na pragmatični ravni spodbuja pogovor. Številnost njegovih interpretacij predstavlja izziv tako v semantiki kot v pragmatiki, kar pa je moč poenostaviti z upoštevanjem fonološkega konteksta. Slednji namreč vsebuje informacije o govorčevih namerah in govorčevemu odnosu do izrečenega. Avtor tako razpravlja o fonoloških kriterijih kot so tradicionalna in večpomenska narava izreke, intonacijski vzorci, dokazljivost idr., ki so odločilni pri ugotavljanju njegove vloge v pogovoru.
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