Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12929
Title: The Semantics of French Discourse Particles 'quoi' and 'ben'
Contributor(s): Waters, Sophia  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2010
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12929
Abstract: Discourse particles are strewn throughout natural spoken discourse, revealing the speakers' attitude towards what they are saying and guiding the interlocutors' interpretation of that utterance. The majority of works in the area of the French discourse particles 'quoi' and 'ben' provide detailed analyses and place their primary focus on usage. Problems arise, however, when word usage is discussed without a systematic approach to semantics. The present study applies the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) method of description to these particles, proposing definitive explications that can be substituted into naturally occurring examples of quoi and ben without causing any semantic loss. Explications, framed in the culture-neutral terms of the NSM, capture the subtleties of meaning conveyed by each discourse particle. They are presented in parallel English and French versions and are tested against a corpus of spoken French.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: ALS 2009: 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9th - 11th July, 2009
Source of Publication: Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, p. 1-25
Publisher: Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)
Place of Publication: Magill, Australia
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
200403 Discourse and Pragmatics
200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470308 French language
470408 Lexicography and semantics
470405 Discourse and pragmatics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130202 Languages and linguistics
280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
Publisher/associated links: http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2009/waters.pdf
http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2009.html
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