| Title: | The semantics of the adverb now |
| Author: | Veronica Cristina Nedelcu |
| Publication: | Analele Universității „Ovidius” din Constanța. Seria Filologie, XXIII (2), p. 162-169 |
| p-ISSN: | 1223-7248 |
| Publisher: | Ovidius University Press |
| Place: | Constanța |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | Each process, state or event needs a certain temporal and spatial context in order the speaker to be able to present its characteristics (how close or how far away is it towards the moment/ the place of being produced or towards the moment/ the place of speaking, information about the length of the process, its position, etc.). Within the grammatical elements which help building the temporal and spatial context, a very important place is taken by the adverbs of space and time which are, most of the time, mandatory inside a sentence. The present study wants to demonstrate both the way in which the adverb ”now” functions in different speaking situations and the way in which this adverb can be given a meaning within a certain context. |
| Key words: | temporality, now, deixis, reflexive token |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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