Publications

Publication details [#56275]

Bladas, Òscar. 2012. Conversational routines, formulaic language and subjectification. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (8) : 929–957.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational routine | formulaic expression | grammaticalization | subject

Language as a subject

Catalan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines some of the so-called “conversational routines” (Coulmas, 1981) in Catalan, by observing the concept of subjectification as determined by Traugott and Dasher (2002) and Traugott (2010). These formulaic forms undergo an increase of subjectification which, in some cases, may lead to a grammaticalization process and beyond.