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Let's talk politics: New essays on deliberative rhetoricEdited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp
[Argumentation in Context 6] 2014
► pp. 99–114
The purpose of this paper is to describe the function of non seulement… mais (‘not only… but’) and et même (‘and even’) in the organization of argumentation in EU-parliamentary debate. They both reinforce the argumentation for a conclusion, but they behave differently on a textual-discursive level. Et même marks a difference in argumentative force between arguments, whereas non seulement… mais can also be used as a purely additive marker without implication on the scalarity between the arguments. This study is based on C-ParlEur. Corpus de discours du PARLement EURopéen consisting of 919 speeches during the debates delivered by the 78 French MEPs during the April 2006–March 2008 period.