{"product_id":"discourse-markers-in-sicily-9789004521056","title":"Discourse Markers in Sicily","description":"When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: «\u003ci\u003eArà, che si dice?\u003c\/i\u003e» (‘Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in – \u003ci\u003earà\u003c\/i\u003e. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there, and a way of prompting me to start our conversation. The fact she used Sicilian had a clear meaning too: the vernacular indicates a shared social identity.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a nutshell, this book analyses the cases of Sicilian \u003ci\u003earà\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ementri\u003c\/i\u003e to understand the complexity of discourse markers: what functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social meaning is in a bilingual speech community.","brand":"Giulio Scivoletto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310654271739,"sku":"9789004521056","price":167.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f3f432ab-a986-4ae3-b526-c5e036691b31.jpg?v=1774775569","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/discourse-markers-in-sicily-9789004521056","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}