Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the distribution and interpretation of the French adverbs or and maintenant and the Italian adverb ora. Our goal is to describe the parallelism between the temporal and argumentative use of these three adverbs, and to underline at the same time the diffe...
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| description | This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the distribution and interpretation of the French adverbs or and maintenant and the Italian adverb ora. Our goal is to describe the parallelism between the temporal and argumentative use of these three adverbs, and to underline at the same time the differences in the use of ora with respect to or / maintenant. We claim that ora and or / maintenant share a common function, which is to update the point of perspective in the temporal structure of the ongoing discourse. Next, we propose that the semantic feature that justifies this updating function is the essential link between the temporal reading and the epistemic reading, which can be considered as the typical result of a process of abstraction of temporal adverbs into discourse connectives. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2a13b654015a4092bb7e4b09e90c658a2025-01-30T09:53:02ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232017-09-012010.4000/discours.9290Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentativeMartin BeckerMarta DonazzanThis paper presents a contrastive analysis of the distribution and interpretation of the French adverbs or and maintenant and the Italian adverb ora. Our goal is to describe the parallelism between the temporal and argumentative use of these three adverbs, and to underline at the same time the differences in the use of ora with respect to or / maintenant. We claim that ora and or / maintenant share a common function, which is to update the point of perspective in the temporal structure of the ongoing discourse. Next, we propose that the semantic feature that justifies this updating function is the essential link between the temporal reading and the epistemic reading, which can be considered as the typical result of a process of abstraction of temporal adverbs into discourse connectives.https://journals.openedition.org/discours/9290temporal adverbialsdiscourse connectivestemporal structureargumentative structureperspective pointreference point |
| spellingShingle | Martin Becker Marta Donazzan Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative Discours temporal adverbials discourse connectives temporal structure argumentative structure perspective point reference point |
| title | Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| title_full | Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| title_fullStr | Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| title_full_unstemmed | Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| title_short | Or, ora, maintenant : perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| title_sort | or ora maintenant perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative |
| topic | temporal adverbials discourse connectives temporal structure argumentative structure perspective point reference point |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/9290 |
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