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Title: | Lor in colloquial Singapore English | Authors: | Wee, L. | Keywords: | Conversational implicative Grammaticalization Particles Resignative Semantic/pragmatic change Singapore English |
Issue Date: | 2002 | Citation: | Wee, L. (2002). Lor in colloquial Singapore English. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 711-725. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00057-1 | Abstract: | Colloquial Singapore English contains a number of pragmatic particles. This paper focuses on the particle lor. Previous analyses have suggested either that it marks a piece of information as being obvious, or that it indicates that an utterance has the pragmatic force of a 'weak' suggestion. In this paper, I show that examples of the latter are better analysed with lor as expressing a sense of resignation. I then show how, by adopting a grammaticalization-based approach, the resignation sense of lor can be related to its use as a marker of 'obviousness' © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. | Source Title: | Journal of Pragmatics | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/21937 | ISSN: | 03782166 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00057-1 |
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