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This paper presents and discusses various discourse-linguistic approaches to the description and analysis of the French connector “puisque”, casting some light on crucial lines of research on the role of connectors in the domain of discourse linguistics. Highlighting some limitations of the existing proposals, a new approach that inscribes itself into a linguistic theory of argumentation is presented and illustrated with examples taken from the Europarl Corpus. In our study, which takes Toulmin’s model of argumentation as its starting point, the crucial notions of and , in particular, are exploited for the analysis of the discourse-functional role and profile of the French connector “puisque”.

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Keywords: French language ; argumentation ; Connectors ; enthymeme ; discourse theories ; topoi ; discourse analysis
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