On the functions of donc in spoken French. From consequential connective to discourse structuring marker.

• Autores: Catherine Bolly, Liesbeth Degand
• Localización: Linguisticae investigationes: Revue internationale de linguistique française et de linguistique générale, ISSN 0378-4169, Tome 32, Fascicule 1, 2009, págs. 1-32
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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