REALIZATION OF PRAGMATIC MARKERS IN PERSIAN

Pragmatic markers (PMs Hereafter) have been a polemic issue in pragmatic research over the past few decades. Although a substantial amount of research has been devoted to PMs in English and some other languages to define, classify and categorize PMs, we are still far from developing an inclusive typology. Drawing on data from a written and spoken corpus in Persian and the current classifications of PMs in literature such as Gonzalez (2005), Akkaya (2007), Brinton (2008), and Fraser’s (2009), the present study tried to find out how such markers are realized in Persian. In so doing, attempt has been made to follow a reductionistic approach. The analysis is based on a dichotomy of interpretational/non-interpretational and notional/ non-notional particles. The study will, also, discuss the areas of convergence and divergence in Persian and English and the theoretical and pedagogical implications.