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4. Language comparison

4. Language comparison This paper looks at nine Dutch particles used in directives. Following the introduction and an outline oftheir syntactic paradigms, section 3 postulates a scale of deontic modality ranging from necessity to possibility. Section 4 looks at directives and politeness äs seen by Leech (1983), and Brown and Levinsons (1978) study of politeness strategies of which the use of particles is one. Scales of politeness can be observed too. Section 5 suggests a relation between the two scales, and reports on a study which aimed to discover if such scales exist mthin the group of nine particles. The paper ends mth a brief comparison between the datafor Dutch and existing datafor modalized directives in English. 1. Introduction This paper reports on an experimental pilot study whose objective it was to determine the presence or absence of a rank order in a particular set of modal particles in Dutch. This set consists of the nine particles dan, eens, even, maar, misschien, nou, ook, soms and loch. These nine particles have in common that they can be used in directives. Before reporting on the experiment, however, the paper first describes the syntactic paradigms within which the nine particles can occur, followed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0167-8507
eISSN
1613-3684
DOI
10.1515/mult.1991.10.1-2.109
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Abstract

This paper looks at nine Dutch particles used in directives. Following the introduction and an outline oftheir syntactic paradigms, section 3 postulates a scale of deontic modality ranging from necessity to possibility. Section 4 looks at directives and politeness äs seen by Leech (1983), and Brown and Levinsons (1978) study of politeness strategies of which the use of particles is one. Scales of politeness can be observed too. Section 5 suggests a relation between the two scales, and reports on a study which aimed to discover if such scales exist mthin the group of nine particles. The paper ends mth a brief comparison between the datafor Dutch and existing datafor modalized directives in English. 1. Introduction This paper reports on an experimental pilot study whose objective it was to determine the presence or absence of a rank order in a particular set of modal particles in Dutch. This set consists of the nine particles dan, eens, even, maar, misschien, nou, ook, soms and loch. These nine particles have in common that they can be used in directives. Before reporting on the experiment, however, the paper first describes the syntactic paradigms within which the nine particles can occur, followed

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Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communicationde Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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