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Publication details [#32064]

Vlemings, Joeri. 2003. The discourse use of French donc in imperative sentences. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (7) : 1095–1112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

imperative1 | inference | markedness | pragmatic interpretation

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines, from a pragmatic perspective, whether the French particle 'donc', used in imperative sentences, can indeed be considered as a discourse marker and whether this use has to be investigated along the same lines as the inferential use of 'donc'.