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The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French.
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The auth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1985.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
6:3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author's observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (131 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789027279613 9027279616 1283359170 9781283359177 9786613359179 6613359173 |
| ISSN: | 0166-6258 ; |