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Publication details [#53104]

Goethals, Patrick. 2010. A multi-layered approach to speech events: The case of Spanish justificational conjunctions. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2204–2218.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conjunction1 | justifying | pragmatics | speech act

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Describing the structural and semantic features of the Spanish justificational causal conjunctions como, ya que, and pues, this study argues that they function as speech event markers. This analysis can also account for some typical pragmatic effects.