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ʻVið bara „hvað er í gangi?“
On discourse markers as quotatives in Icelandic youth languageʼ
Lykilorð: munnlegar frásagnir, inngangsorð, unglingamál, íslenskt samtal
Keywords: spoken narratives, quotatives, youth language, Icelandic conversation
In many languages there is evidence that discourse markers are used increasingly as quo-
tatives instead of verbs in order to introduce quotations in adolescent speech. In this paper,
I examine a podcast interview with two Icelandic-speaking adolescents in order to shed
light on this topic. Of all the quotatives occurring in the interview the discourse marker
bara is the most frequent. In second place is the discourse marker eitthvað and the verb
segja comes third. In the cases where neutral, descriptive verbs such as segja ʻsayʼ and spyrja
ʻaskʼ occur, they are usually followed by discourse markers, possibly in order to reduce for-
mality. Excerpts from the interview are discussed in order to analyze the use of discourse
markers as quotatives.

Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
Laugavegi 13
IS-101 Reykjavík.
rajo@hi.is
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