Discourse markers and regional variation in French
A lexico-semantic approach
Gaétane Dostie | CATIFQ, Département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
This chapter examines several discourse markers (DMs) which are common in spontaneous Quebec French and which derive from verbs of perception/cognition (coudon ‘hey, by the way’, écoute ‘listen’) and temporal and consecutive markers (pis ‘and, so, so what?’, alors ‘so’, (ça) fait que ‘so’). From a lexico-semantic point of view, regional variation – a not insignificant characteristic of DMs – results from the fact that an item whose meaning predisposes it to become a pragmatic item becomes pragmaticalized in one region but not necessarily in the other, or does not attain the same degree of pragmaticalization in one region as in another.
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