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Title:		Chapter 2. Sociopragmatic influences on the development and use of the discourse marker vet in Ixil Maya
Bibliographic Citation:		Gómez de García, Jule, Axelrod, Melissa, Luz García, María; 2010-05; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4449.
Creator:		Gómez de García, Jule
		Axelrod, Melissa
		Luz García, María
Date (W3CDTF):		2010-05
Description:		In this paper we explore the functions of the particle vet in Ixil Mayan and argue that it is a discourse marker used to perform both structural and pragmatic functions. Vet serves as a structural marker indicating temporally or causally interdependent items; it also has sociopragmatic functions, allowing speakers to present an evaluation of a discourse that invites interlocutors to also take a stance both on the information presented and on their roles in particular sociocultural activities. These functions of managing negotiations among interlocutors range from agreements on descriptive terms to calls for social action among entire groups, in all cases highlighting the social nature both of discourse and of group activity. The overlapping of the structural and pragmatic functions of vet demonstrates the grammaticalization cline ranging from adverb to discourse marker proposed by Traugott (1997). Our examination of vet in a range of genres produced by the Mujeres por la Paz of Nebaj, El Quiché, Guatemala, a cooperative formed in 1997 by Ixil Maya women who were widowed or left fatherless during the Guatemalan civil war, suggest that the effects of the individual and group identities and motivations of participants outweighs anticipated genre effects.
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Format:		23 pages
Identifier:		Gómez de García, Jule, Melissa Axelrod & María Luz García. 2010. Sociopragmatic influences on the development and use of the discourse marker vet in Ixil Maya. In Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, & Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 9-31. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
		978-0-8248-3530-9
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4449
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 2
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
Subject:		Ixil Maya
		discourse marker
		pragmatics
		Guatemala
Table Of Contents:		02gomezdegarciaetal.pdf
Type:		Book Chapter
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Gómez de García, Jule; Axelrod, Melissa; Luz García, María. 2010. University of Hawai'i Press.
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