Discourse markers and regional variation in French
A lexico-semantic approach
- Author(s): Gaétane Dostie 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 CATIFQ, Département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
- Source: Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French , pp 201-214
- Publication Date October 2009
This chapter examines several discourse markers (DMs) which are common in spontaneous Quebec French and which derive from verbs of perception/cognition (coudon ‘hey, by the way’, écoute ‘listen’) and temporal and consecutive markers (pis ‘and, so, so what?’, alors ‘so’, (ça) fait que ‘so’). From a lexico-semantic point of view, regional variation – a not insignificant characteristic of DMs – results from the fact that an item whose meaning predisposes it to become a pragmatic item becomes pragmaticalized in one region but not necessarily in the other, or does not attain the same degree of pragmaticalization in one region as in another.
- Affiliations: 1: CATIFQ, Département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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