The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French.
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| Title: | The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French. |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | BARNES, Betsy K. |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | French language--Syntax, French language--Spoken French |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE STUDY / French |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9789027225450 9789027279613 |
