Article
No es por nada: Spanish argumentative preface and discourse operator
Author/s | Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina |
Editor | Anne Bezuidenhout
Andreas H. Jucker |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lengua Española, Linguística y Teoria de la Literatura |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | 2022-09-12 |
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Abstract | No es por X pero Y is a Spanish structure that can appear combined with an adversative sentence and anticipates a possible misinterpretation by the listener. It acts as a semi-fixed construction. It respects the communicative ... No es por X pero Y is a Spanish structure that can appear combined with an adversative sentence and anticipates a possible misinterpretation by the listener. It acts as a semi-fixed construction. It respects the communicative intention of the speaker and mitigates the negative effects that what is said can have on his/her social image. At the same time, when no es por nada appears as an independent form in a peripheral position or as a reactive turn, it functions as an assertion enhancer with sentence mobility. This function as a discourse operator reveals a grammaticalization process of cooptation that is not yet completed as it still coexists with the free construction. |
Citation | Fuentes Rodríguez, C. (2021). No es por nada: Spanish argumentative preface and discourse operator. Journal of Pragmatics, 186, 236-250. |
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