Funcții și valori discursive ale marcatorului păi în textele dialectale

Abstract

The article focuses on examining the discourse marker păi frequently used in the regional varieties of Romanian, and the analysis is based on a corpus of dialect texts. We followed the theoretical models proposed by Jucker (1997), Heritage and Sorjonen (2018), and Crible and Degand (2019). Depending on its position (pre-clausal or clause-internal in turn-initial, turn-internal or turn-final) the main functions of păi are: (a) to signal the answer, and (b) to mark the transition between narrative episodes. There are several values grouped under each function, depending on the speaker’s attitude and his/her epistemic/affective stance.