Unexpectedness and its pragmatic markers in Standard Serbian

Abstract

The paper sets about to identify something researchers fail to consider: the principles that in Standard Serbian govern the occurrence of the pragmatic devices već, još, još uvek, and više (ne..) by means of which the speaker discloses that the information about an actual state of affairs he is giving to his conversation partner happens to be an unexpected news for him. It highlights also the informational effects of vec on somebody who is listening to the conversation between the speaker and the addressee but who does not share in all details their stock of knowledge about the conversational topic and it rises the relevant question of the theoretical status of such effects.

Rad je posvećen osvetljavanju kako okolnosti pod kojima se neka data rečenična informacija doživljava kao neočekivana vest, tako i izboru jezičkih sredstava koja u standardnom srpskom funkcionišu kao njihove pragmatske oznake. Ukazuje se, uz to, i na neke specifične uslove pod kojima informativne datosti o kojima je reč postaju poseban teorijski problem čije rešavanje tek predstoji.