České otázky s podmětem vyjádřeným zájmeny 1. a 2. osoby v zrcadle anglických překladových protějšků

• Authors: Markéta Malá , Nádraská Zuzana

Title variants

EN

Czech Polar Questions with an Explicit First and Second Person Pronoun Subject in the Context of Their English Translation Counterparts

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to explore the discourse functions of Czech polar questions where the overt subject is realised by first and second person pronouns. In order to overcome the pitfalls associated with the identification of the discourse functions, we rely on two data sets (fictional and authentic dialogue) and the triangulation of methods (formal, semantic and pragmatic analysis of Czech data, and analysis of translation counterparts as indicators of discourse functions). The accumulation of explicit and implicit markers of contextual dependency (appeal to the addressee and speaker’s stance) seems to suggest that speakers use the examined questions to express a context-based assumption and evaluation, turning to the addressee for confirmation.

Keywords

CS

česká zjišťovací otázka; podmět; zájmena 1. a 2. osoby; triangulace metod; paralelní korpus InterCorp 16; korpus autentické mluvené češtiny ORAL

EN

Czech polar questions; subject; first and second person pronouns methodological triangulation; parallel corpus InterCorp 16; corpus of authentic spoken Czech ORAL

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-30

Contributors

author

Markéta Malá

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Nádraská Zuzana