Užití slovesa wanna v britské mluvené angličtině

Khrapkov, Valentyn

The BA thesis focuses on the use of the verb wanna in present-day spoken British English. Currently, the two most prominent approaches to the status of wanna assume it to be an instance of either grammaticalisation or lexicalisation and view the verb as a representative of the class of the so- called "emerging modals" - verbs which are functionally diverging from their parent phrases. The theoretical part of this work discusses the merits and failings of the mentioned approaches and summarises the results of the previous findings on the differences between wanna and want to. It also examines the concept of modality together with the specific modal meanings which the verbs are capable of expressing. The practical part of this study is corpus-based; it compares the use of wanna and want to through the analysis of 400 random samples of clauses containing the two verbs extracted from the spoken part of the British National Corpus 1994 and British National Corpus 2014. The data are examined from the point of three chosen variables, namely, the modal meaning of wanna and want to, the formal type of the sentence, and the form of the target clause subject. The aim is to determine whether any of the variables are statistically more probable to influence the speakers' choice between wanna and want to....

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