Spanish Venga and its English equivalents: a contrastive study of teenage talk

• Anna-Brita Stenström ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bergen

     University of Bergen

     Noruega

     
• Localización: Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives / coord. por Maite Taboada, Susana María Doval Suárez, Elsa González Alvarez, 2013, ISBN 9781908049759, págs. 53-71
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This chapter focuses on the various uses of venga in Madrid teenagers’ conversations and the way these uses are realized in London teenage conversations. As the paper shows, the closest English equivalent of the pragmatic marker venga in most of its uses is come on.