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Becker, Martin and Donazzan, Marta (2017). Now, ora, now : temporal perspective and argumentative perspective. Discours (20). PARIS: UNIV PARIS-SORBONNE, MAISON RECHERCHE. ISSN 1963-1723

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Abstract

This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the distribution and interpretation of the French adverbs or and maintenant and the Italian adverb ora. Our goal is to describe the parallelism between the temporal and argumentative use of these three adverbs, and to underline at the same time the diferences in the use of ora with respect to or / maintenant. We claim that ora and or / maintenant share a common function, which is to update the point of perspective in the temporal structure of the ongoing discourse. Next, we propose that the semantic feature that justiies this updating function is the essential link between the temporal reading and the epistemic reading, which can be considered as the typical result of a process of abstraction of temporal adverbs into discourse connectives.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Becker, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Donazzan, Marta UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-244413
DOI:	10.4000/discours.9290
Journal or Publication Title:	Discours
Number:	20
Date:	2017
Publisher:	UNIV PARIS-SORBONNE, MAISON RECHERCHE
Place of Publication:	PARIS
ISSN:	1963-1723
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Romanisches Seminar
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DISCOURSE Multiple languages Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24441