On Some Gambits in Mosuli Arabic: Connectives
Abstract
Connectives are those items which are used to connect fragments of discourse to each other so as to construct unified and coherent discourse. The two related fragments may be uttered by two different participants or by one participant. The presence of the marker indicates the presence of some topic (or some relatively related topic) in the two discoursal fragments. The change of the marker, further, my change the relation exhibits between the two related parts affecting in turn the coherence of discourse. More than one factor has been found to be effective in the use of a specific marker rather than another. Those factors include: formality, politeness, sex, religion, social status, age, intonation, stress, and some Pragmalinguistic cues like facial expressions, gestures, and head movements. In general, the paper seeks to affirm the claim that connectives are context-dependent items.