Speaker’s emphatic call for attention

10.2.14 Speaker’s emphatic call for attention

The particle tete SECA speaker’s emphatic call for attention is used to draw the hearer’s careful attention to what the speaker is going to communicate. Unlike the previous attention particle this may be used also in written communication. The other difference is that tete is more proximate than we. The particle tete is never used when one has to shout to someone. English gloss for this particle is: ‘Note carefully’, ‘notice’, ‘note’, ‘pay close attention to’. The particle tete marks the syntactic unit which follows it and demands the whole attention of the hearer to the contents of the utterance. The following examples illustrate this. 10.94 ɕi-na khur-a di-ki miŋ di tøn-na die-NFNT1 carry-NMLZ;Q DEF-GEN name DEF reveal-NFNT1 aku- raŋ tete ŋ-e tɕhø ɕep-pa uncle-self SECA 1SG-ERG religion speak-NMLZ;Q thaŋ lam tøm-pa-la nen. TE51 and path show-NMLZ;Q-DAT listen[IMP] ‘He reveals the name of the dead one and speaks to him saying, “Uncle, note carefully and listen to my recitation and instructions about the path”’ Speaker is a lama who instructs the soul of a dead person to find his way in the afterworld. 10.95 sa-ma hi-ko so-t ɕit thuŋ-tɕit. eat-F2 this-head eat-IMP2 drink-IMP2 hi-ni tete raŋ-ki ama papa-la sim tɕhaa-pa this-ABL SECA 2SG-GEN mother father-DAT mind attach-NMLZ;Q mat-t ɕhi-tɕit. TE49 NEG-do;VBZR-IMP2 ‘Eat and drink this food. Then note this particularly, do not attach your soul to your parents’ Speaker is a lama who instructs the soul of a dead man. Food is offered for the dead to eat but what follows is even more important. He is not supposed to come back to haunt his family. Therefore that command is marked with this particle tete. 10.96 tete hat ɕa-raŋ-le mi joŋma SECA 1PL.INCL-self-COMP.BASIS man other duk-paa jøk-ken bet. TE49 feel.pain-COMP2 EXIST-NMLZ;CONJ AUX ‘Notice, there are other men, more destitute than us.’ Speaker is condoling a mourning family whose father has died. This is part of a longer speech.

10.2.15 Speaker’s response or call for response