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Publication details [#56255]

Porhiel, Sylvie. 2012. The presentative voici/voilà – Towards a pragmatic definition. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (4) : 435–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definition | pragmatics | presentative utterance | referent

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article proposes a pragmatic definition of the modern French presentative 'voilà' which allows us to take into consideration that voilà can constitute a presentative without a following nominalised linguistic item.