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Las funciones interactivas del marcador español ‘¿no?’ Las fronteras entre la atenuación y la protección de la imagen
2020
In this paper the functions of the Spanish discourse marker ?no? are analysed from a pragmatic and an interactive perspective. Specifically, we explore the values of ?no? taking the pragmatic phenomena of mitigation and boosting, as well as the notion of affiliation as described in conversation analysis. The previous literature devoted to the study of this linguistic form has consistently identified its uses as a confirmation request or a phatic device (Fuentes, 1990, 2009; Santos Rio, 2003; Garcia Vizcaino, 2005; Montanez, 2008, 2015; Rodriguez Munoz, 2009; Moccero, 2010; Santana, 2017). This work, however, analyses how the mitigating uses interact and share features with neighbouring cate…
Co-occurrence of discourse markers in Catalan and Spanish oral narrative
2009
The analysis of oral narratives in Catalan and Spanish highlights the frequency, variety and importance of co-occurring discourse markers. A detailed study of the formal aspects of co-occurrences leads to differentiating three degrees of integration of markers: juxtaposition, addition and composition. These types can be related to dominant category patterns, positions in the narrative and also functional domains (namely, propositional, structural and modal). The analysis and extensive exemplification suggests that co-occurrences based on the addition and composition of markers behave and contribute to discourse cohesion in a special way.
Pragmatic markers in contrast: The case of well
2008
Well is the most frequently analysed discourse marker. However, its meaning still remains elusive. The question explored in this paper is to what extent a contrastive analysis of a pragmatic marker can help identify its meaning and functions. The answer to this question is supported by an analysis of the occurrences of well in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and their functional equivalents in the Catalan and Spanish dubbed versions. The analysis provides evidence that pragmatic markers such as well exhibit differences in meaning when compared with logical markers such as but. Their meaning is fully pragmatic since it does not refer properly to a propositional content but to structural…
Discourse Markers of French: Multifaceted Look at a Controversial Category
2021
In this paper, we discuss the question of discourse markers (DM) – a category conceived differently by theoretical and applied linguistic approaches. Unlike in applied approaches, in which DMs are considered desemantized/grammaticalized lexical units devoid of their own semantics and therefore of status in the language, we consider DMs to constitute a full-fledged category of language, having its own semantics and distribution, both of which play a crucial role in the construction of discourse (Paillard 2011, 2012; Franckel 2008, 2019). This hypothesis has been developed in theoretical linguistics and has seen little evidence from a perspective of the acquisition and didactics of foreign la…
‘La verdad (es que)’: Significado nuclear y atenuante
2017
The aims of this research are to define the attenuating function in the uses of la verdad (es que) and to evaluate the counter expectation value in the awakening of this pragmatic function. La verdad (es que) has been generally defined as a reinforcement discourse marker (Portoles, 1998; Fuentes 2009, 2012), even if some recent studies have shown that it is mostly used as an attenuating device (Gonzalez & Maldonado, 2007; Soler, 2015a). Based on this assumption, the research analyses the attenuating uses of this construction in a corpus of synchronic oral and written texts in peninsular Spanish, which cover different genres and registers, in order to explain which discourse circumstances ca…
Do discourse markers exist? On the treatment of discourse markers in Relevance Theory
2008
Abstract This paper critically reviews three Relevance Theory (RT) ideas on connectives: the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning, connectives as strictly procedural elements, and monosemy as the best explanation of multifunctional connectives. These three ideas underlie the description of connectives and related sets of markers within RT. Data from colloquial conversations, however, provide evidence which calls these ideas into question. Therefore, it is argued that conceptual and procedural features can coexist within a single marker, that the concept of apposition markers should be reconsidered, that conceptual expressions can connect two utterances, and that polysemy pr…
Marcadores discursivos y prosodia: parámetros acústicos y especialización de partículas atenuantes en español
2017
Algunos estudios recientes (Briz & Hidalgo 2008; Cepeda 1999; Dorta & Domínguez 2004; Hidalgo 2010; Martín Butragueño 2003; Martínez Hernández 2015; Romera & Elordieta 2002, entre otros) coinciden en la idea de que la realización prosódica de ciertos marcadores discursivos puede ser determinante para su interpretación precisa en contexto: en la mente de los especialistas ha acabado calando, pues, la importancia de lo prosódico como factor decisivo para explicar la riqueza funcional de los marcadores. No extraña en este sentido que el DPDE (Diccionario de Partículas Discursivas del español: http://www.dpde.es/) incluya entre sus elementos descriptivos un apartado específico dedic…
Análisis pragmaprosódico del marcador discursivo bueno
2016
En líneas generales los marcadores del discurso han sido estudiados desde un enfoque gramatical, léxico, pragmático o pragmasintáctico, si bien, son pocos los estudios que han centrado su atención hacia el plano suprasegmental o prosódico. Nuestro trabajo parte de una hipótesis previa sobre la que ciertos rasgos prosódicos (acento, duración silábica, pausa, fronteras tonales) se asocian a la diversidad funcional de este tipo de unidades lingüísticas. De este modo, desarrollaremos de forma cualitativa y a título ejemplificador un análisis prosódico sobre el marcador discursivo bueno mediante la herramienta informática Praat, de acuerdo con la bibliografía al uso. Nos centraremos así en el es…
Mecanismos de atenuación entre el decir y lo dicho: procesos de enunciación a través de la partícula discursiva digamos
2018
Este trabajo presenta los resultados obtenidos en el análisis de la partícula discursiva digamos en corpus coloquiales (Val.Es.Co. 2002 y 2.0.), aplicando el sistema de unidades, niveles y posiciones Val.Es.Co. (Briz y grupo Val.Es.Co. 2003, 2014) y la ficha Es. Por. Atenuación (Albelda et alii 2014). El resultado integra dos perspectivas de análisis para determinar si factores como la unidad ocupada o posición discursiva condicionan su polifuncionalidad. This study presents the results obtained from the analysis of the Spanish discourse particle digamos in colloquial corpus. The Val.Es.Co. proposal (Briz et alii 2003, 2014) and the Es.Var.Atenuación analysis sheet (Albelda et alii 2014) ar…
From matrix clause to discourse marker: the grammaticalization of Hauptsache
2021
[EN] This paper has a double purpose. On the one hand, it intends to prove the existence of a discourse marker (DM) Hauptsache. This element preserves the core conceptual meaning of the homonymous noun, but differs from it with regard to its morphosyntactic and semantic features as well as to its discourse-organizing, information structuring, and modal functions. On the other hand, the emergence of Hauptsache as a discourse particle is explained on the grounds of a grammaticalization process similar to the ones described for the prototypical German DMs. Evidence drawn from a corpus of German and Austrian parliamentary protocols will show in which ways the six fundamental processes implied i…