Mirjana N. Dedaić

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mirjana N. Dedaić is involved.

Titles

Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić

The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 65] 2015. vii, 251 pp.

South Slavic Discourse Particles

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.

Dedaić, Mirjana N. 2015 Mandela speaks to the nation: The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 21–42 | Article

This chapter investigates metalingual mitigation markers, discursive strategies that entice the audience to think and feel in unison, and dress their thoughts and emotions in national colours. I focus on such markers employed by the South African president Nelson Mandela in his annual speeches to… read more

Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Sally Hunt 2015 Politics and discourse in South Africa Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Dedaić, Mirjana N. 2010 6. Reformulating and concluding: The pragmatics of the Croatian discourse marker dakle South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 109–131 | Article

While it is primarily a reformulator, the Croatian discourse marker dakle also has several other functional pragmatic ingredients. Dedaic considers these elements in her attempt to both give a unitary account of this discourse marker and to tease out, in a comparative analysis, whether particles… read more

Mišković-Luković, Mirjana and Mirjana N. Dedaić 2010 1. South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article