The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the thematic-rematic structure of Polish equivalents of interrogative sentences such as What do you think he had done?, namely of questions about some component of subordinate clause. In Polish, an interrogative pronoun has to be placed within the subordinate clause (it can be moved to the beginning of the sentence, but such an operation is connected with the contrastive intonation of the pronoun). The author claims that questions of the given type are to be interpret just as other wh-questions. She cites the theory of thematic-rematic structure of questions of A. Bogusławski and modifies this theory in order to account for interrogative sentences with counter-factive predicates, such as to lie.
The purpose of the paper is to present a description of the meaning of the Polish verb [ktośi] podpowiedział [komuśj], że p. In dictionaries of contemporary Polish language, the verb podpowiedzieć (advise) is described as an ambiguous word. The author claims that there is only one meaning of the verb podpowiedzieć. It refers to such a speech act, in which the speaker has to assume that the addressee is about to do something, but he lacks sufficient knowledge to perform that action. The speaker thinks that someone can manage the addressee's problem if one knows about a certain set of sentences, with particular expressions belonging to it, and that they are true. One of these sentences becomes the content of the speech act described.
W artykule przedstawiony został projekt badań nad pragmatyką zdarzeń mownych, prowadzonych w Katedrze Lingwistyki Formalnej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Główny cel projektu to zbadanie różnego rodzaju zdarzeń komunikacyjnych, których konstytutywnym elementem jest czyjeś odezwanie się. W szczególności naszym przedmiotem zainteresowania są korelacje między zdarzeniami mownymi a możliwością ich relacjonowania przez użytkowników współczesnej polszczyzny. W celu zebrania materiału badawczego planujemy stworzyć multimedialny korpus zdarzeń komunikacyjnych. Będzie on zawierał fragmenty filmów, programów telewizyjnych, nagrań sesji Sejmu, reklam. Badania dostarczą nowych narzędzi dla lingwistów zajmujących się między innymi pragmatyką, semantyką oraz fonetyką.
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The paper presents the project of research on the pragmatics of speech events. The research is carried out by the Department of Formal Linguistics (University of Warsaw). The main aim of the project is to examine various kinds of communication events performed by someone speaking. Especially, we are working to provide a detailed analysis of correlations between a speech event and a report of such an event possible to present by a Polish language user. In order to gather research material, we are constructing the multimedia corpus of Polish speech acts. It is going to include footage of all types, for example film clips, television programs, recordings of Parliament sessions, commercials. The corpus appears to be a new tool for linguists interested in pragmatics, semantics, phonetics, and other areas of language and communication analysis.
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