Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in Komi spontaneous speech, a large number of verbal hesitatives function, which have not yet been described theoretically and need to be comprehensively considered. In the article the verbal hesitatives with a search function are analyzed, the features of their use in oral speech are investigated.
Objective: to identify and describe search verbal hesitatives that found in Komi spontaneous speech.
Research materials: spontaneous Komi speech from Komi-language programs on television and radio, aired in 2016–2023. Transcripts of recordings of real oral speech, representing everyday spontaneous conversations of native speakers in everyday circumstances.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the article examines in detail the verbal hesitatives with the search function, found in Komi spontaneous speech, describes their pragmatic features. The analysis of the factual material showed that these constructions, in addition to filling pauses in speech, help a communicant to keep the attention of an interlocutor, give time to remember and choose a right word, as well as the opportunity to correct the utterance. It can be confidently stated that they contribute to successful communication by performing the following functions: hesitative (fill in pauses when difficulties arise in the process of speech production), search (signal the search for a relevant verbal unit to continue utterance), discursive (act as a tool for organizing speech). A distinctive feature of this type of constructions is that in the process of speech generation, in order to prevent the occurrence of long pauses (breaks) they can replace any word or syntactic construction.
Key words: Komi language, spontaneous speech, communicant, hesitative pauses, verbal hesitatives, search function
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project is FUUU-2021-0008 “Permian languages in the linguocultural space of the European North and the Urals”.
For citation: Gulyaeva N. I. Verbal hesitatives with search function in Komi spontaneous speech // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (4/59): 638–645.