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This paper explores the discourse functions of and its Spanish equivalents in the genre of newspaper opinion discourse. Certainty markers seem to have a presence intrinsic to the opinion genre and, therefore, are expected to “exhibit a certain uniformity across languages” (Dafouz, 2008, p. 110). Whereas the non-correspondence between and soon becomes apparent, the results of earlier studies (Ramón, 2009Carretero, 2012) might well lead to the hypothesis that the PPs and realize in Spanish opinion articles the same discourse functions as does in English newspapers. Drawing on naturally-occurring linguistic data from a corpus of English and Spanish opinion texts (C-OPRES), this study (1) investigates the non-correspondence between cognates and (2) explores the aforesaid research hypothesis. Finally, a translation corpus is used (P-ACTRES) to address the complex relationships between seemingly equivalent words, filling in the gaps of the contrastive analysis. The findings reveal a partial overlap between and its Spanish counterparts as epistemic markers or in concessive contexts; whereas there are also significant differences in the distribution of other discourse functions, mainly regarding the emphasizing use of and the grammaticalization of its so-called equivalents in Spanish as textual and/or interpersonal discourse markers.

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The discourse functions of certainly and its Spanish counterparts in journalistic opinion discourse
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31, 520 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.16026.per
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): adverbios de certeza; análisis contrastivo; certainty adverbs; contrastive analysis; English/Spanish; gramaticalización; grammaticalization; inglés/español; newspaper opinon discourse; periodismo de opinión

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