Publications

Publication details [#11918]

Hansen, Mai-Britt Mosegaard. 1997. Alors and Donc in Spoken French: A Reanalysis. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (2) : 153–187. 35 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

connective | discourse marker | foregrounding | network representation

Language as a subject

French

Person as a subject

Sperber, D. | Wilson, D.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The reanalysis defines these two adverbs as connective discourse markers, the uses of which can be derived metonymically by foregrounding. It is argued that DONC is monosemous, while ALORS is polysemous.