ROM. ATUNCI AND SP. ENTONCES: FROM ADVERBS TO DISCOURSE MARKERS. SOME CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES
ROM. ATUNCI AND SP. ENTONCES: FROM ADVERBS TO DISCOURSE MARKERS. SOME CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES
Author(s): Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu, Oana Adriana DuțăSubject(s): Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Rom. Atunci; Sp. Entonces; discourse markers; argumentative value; metatextual function; intradiscursive and interdiscursive analysis;
Summary/Abstract: Rom. Atunci and Sp. Entonces: from Adverbs to Discourse Markers. Some Convergences and Divergences. This study describes the semantic and functional behaviour of the Romanian adverb atunci and the Spanish adverb entonces. Our contrastive approach puts forward a common typology for the discursive values of these two lexemes which share the same etymon and shows that, across the times, they have followed a similar evolution path, from a temporal adverb to a polyfunctional discursive marker. Using examples from the CoRoLa corpus for Romanian and the CORPES corpus for Spanish, the study outlines that atunci and entonces cover a mostly similar range of discursive functions, but with different degrees of development.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 65/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 47-62
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English