Quelle(s) fonction(s) pour donc en français oral ?
Du connecteur conséquentiel au marqueur de structuration du discours
Catherine Bolly | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique)
Liesbeth Degand | FNRS/Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Cetis
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.
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2022. Les emplois de donc au C.H.U. : étude linguistique appliquée au contexte du soin. Travaux de linguistique n° 83:2 ► pp. 37 ff.
Deng, Delin, F. Neveu, B. Harmegnies, L. Hriba, S. Prévost & A. Steuckardt
2020. 1245 occurrences ofdoncin the speech of Chinese L1 speakers of French in France. SHS Web of Conferences 78 ► pp. 13003 ff.
Deng, Delin, Fenqi Wang & Ratree Wayland
2023. The pitch contour of the French discourse markerdonc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed modeling. Journal of French Language Studies 33:3 ► pp. 324 ff.
2022. Donc« et cie ». Lingvisticae Investigationes 45:2 ► pp. 314 ff.
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