Les structures argumentatives de la locution adverbiale polyvalente jusqu’à un certain point
This paper sketches out possible argumentation structures that are activated by the use of the adverbial jusqu’à un certain point as found in a corpus of examples taken from Le Monde. It is in fact a multifunctional adverbial with both quantificational and modal properties. We show what benefit a wr...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Discours |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8451 |
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| Summary: | This paper sketches out possible argumentation structures that are activated by the use of the adverbial jusqu’à un certain point as found in a corpus of examples taken from Le Monde. It is in fact a multifunctional adverbial with both quantificational and modal properties. We show what benefit a writer may gain in using the adverbial in order to structure his or her argumentation. Jusqu’à un certain point allows one to argue in a way similar to that when using the so-called mais d’argumentation, and it is easily combined with this connector. While its modal properties will not allow it to form frames for discourse, its semantic scope can organize discourse beyond the sentence. This discourse is thus presented as either arguing in favor of (rarely) or in opposition to (most frequently) the conclusions that can be drawn from the proposition modified by the adverbial. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1723 |