VERSO UNA NUOVA DEFINIZIONE DI MANIERA ATTRAVERSO IL PARLATO SPONTANEO ITALIANO
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.1.06Keywords:
Manner, corpus-driven analysis, spoken dialogues, co-construction of meaningAbstract
Towards a New Definition of Manner through Italian Spontaneous Dialogues. Manner has been traditionally considered as a semantic prime expressing the way in which an action is performed. In previous studies, it has been treated as a category fulfilling a basically descriptive function, encoded by an inventory of lexical or morpho-syntactic items (such as verb roots or adverbial phrases). In this paper, we propose a functional and corpus-driven definition of this notion. We present an annotation scheme of Manner constructions and we show how we applied it to 40 spontaneous Italian dialogues from the VOLIP corpus. The analysis of Manner constructions in spoken interactional data shows that, far from being a static descriptive notion, Manner can be regarded as an interactive, gradable category, co-constructed by speakers.
Article history: Received 2 July 2021; Revised 30 August 2021; Accepted 20 October 2021; Available online 31 March 2022; Available print 31 March 2022.
REZUMAT. Încercare de definire a manierei prin intermediul dialogurilor spontane italiene. Din perspectivă tradiţională, maniera a fost considerată un element semantic care exprimă modalitatea prin care o acțiune este îndeplinită. În studii anterioare, a fost tratată ca o categorie, în principiu, cu o funcție descriptivă, codată de un inventar de unități lexicale și morfosintactice (precum rădăcini verbale sau sintagme adverbiale). În acest articol, ne propunem să definim această noțiune din punct de vedere funcțional, bazându-ne pe un corpus. Prezentăm o schemă de notare a construcțiilor modale și arătăm cum am aplicat-o la 40 de dialoguri italiene spontane din corpusul VOLIP. Analiza construcțiilor de manieră, aşa cum rezultă din studierea informaţiilor, arată că, departe de a fi o noțiune descriptiv-statică, maniera poate fi privită ca o categorie interactivă, gradabilă, construită de către vorbitori.
Cuvinte-cheie: manieră, analiză de corpus, dialoguri orale, construire simultană a sensului
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