Kultúra- és nyelvspecifikus diskurzusjelölők a romani nyelvben

Abstract

This study discusses the language use of a Romani-Hungarian bilingual community and, more specifically, it investigates the functions of Romani discourse markers. The analyses reveal that culture specific discourse markers in a narrow sense (shun mo’shun shej, dikh mo’ dikh shej) bear meanings that regulate the behavioural norms of the culture of the speech community in discourse but language users are easily able to transfer discourse markers into Hungarian in a flexible way and at the same time to keep most of their meanings. They mark informal relations in both languages. This study also provides examples of how abisti, avo, amaj, noroko language specific discourse markers always mark a mood by referring to an event or a meaning in discourse and introduce the given message in this way. By knowing their meanings, it is possible to define whether they express doubt, surprise, fear, or even disinterest without taking stress into account.