Macrosyntax and Enunciation. Pragmalinguistic Analysis of digo, digo yo, ya digo and ya te digo

Abstract

The verb decir has two characteristics that increase the interest of its study: it reflects the enunciation process and it is one of the most productive bases for the creation of discursive markers. This work addresses to the pragmalinguistic analysis of four of them: digo, digo yo, ya digo and ya te digo. All of them are conjugated in the first person singular of the present indicative. However, there are some variations that cause them to belong to different categories (markers or operators) and also work in different macrostructures (enunciation, modality, assertion, informative structuring). The analysis carried out identifies the above divergences, indicating to which grammatical category they belong (operators or connectors), and describing their operation in the different levels of discourse. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the macrosyntactic description of the current Spanish language.