RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Bolly, Catherine A1 Degand, Liesbeth YR 2009 T1 Quelle(s) fonction(s) pour donc en français oral ?: Du connecteur conséquentiel au marqueur de structuration du discours JF Lingvisticæ Investigationes VO 32 IS 1 SP 1 OP 32 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/li.32.1.01bol PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4169, AB The article investigates the multi-functional status of the French connective donc (‘so’) showing on the basis of a corpus analysis that the connective may be used to structure the discourse at different levels. The study distinguishes four main functions for donc: consequential, recapitulating, reformulating, and discursive. In the discourse situation, donc may acquire properly discursive functions reaching beyond its primary consequential function. This functional evolution partially parallels a loss of the specific semantico-syntactic features of consequential donc., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/li.32.1.01bol