BIGRAM VOT NU IN EVERYDAY RUSSIAN DISCOURSE: FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS

DOI: 10.24412/2470-1262-2023-2 -6-12

Abstract: The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the use (functional potential) in Russian everyday speech of a combination of two particles: VOT and NU. Each of them has its own, very rich, functional and semantic potential, well described in the scientific literature, but their combination in oral communication actually forms a new, frequent, speech unit VOT NU, the functionality of which on the corpus material has yet to be identified and described. The study was carried out on the material of the corpus of the Russian language of everyday communication “One Speech Day” (ORD), recorded according to the method of continuous monitoring and including dialogues and polylogues of native Russian speakers.

Keywords: speech corpus, oral discourse, everyday speech, pragmatic marker, functional semantic potential

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Information about the Author: Bogdanova-Beglarian Natalia (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) – Prof. PhDr. Faculty of Philology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Specialist in the field of corpus linguistics and colloquialistics (the study of colloquial speech). Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation over 520 published works.

E-mail: nvbogdanova_2005@mail.ru; n.bogdanova@spbu.ru

ORCID: 0000-0002-7652-0358; SPIN- code: 67740937; Researcher ID: M-9042-2013; 

Scopus ID: 56292096800

 

For citation: Bogdanova-Beglarian Natalia V., (2023).

Bigram Vot Nu in Everyday Russian Discourse: Functional and Semantic Characteristics.

Cross-Cultural Studies: Education and Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2023), pp. 6-12 (in USA)

 

Manuscript received: 20/05/2023

Accepted for publication: 08/07/2023

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