Análisis de los marcadores discursivos de una historia de vida en kari'ña

Abstract

The maintenance of cohesion and coherence in discourse occurs through functions performed by lexical elements. This study analyzes some discourse markers of Kari’ña, a Caribbean language spoken in various countries, in its formal, semantic and functional aspects. A qualitative research of a descriptive nature was chosen because it responded to the need to study the intentions of the speaker when expressing discourse markers in speech. The methodology employed was based on the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis which allowed the author to study the intentions of the speaker, how he/she expresses his/her intentions, and how such intentions are understood by the listener. A life story told by a Kari'ña aborigine in his language was analyzed. After classifying the considered markers, a functional analysis was carried out to contextualize them. This made it possible to specify some communicative functions concerning structural operations to link verbal sequences with sequences of events.