| Titre | Deux types d'imparfait atténuétif | |
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| Auteur | Lotfi Abouda | |
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Revue | Langue française |
| Numéro | no 142, juin 2004 Procédés de modalisation : l'atténuation, sous la direction de Pierre Patrick Haillet | |
| Page | 58-74 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The author shows that, according to their syntactic properties, the statements in which the imperfect is used instead of the present tense - and is therefore interpreted as an attenuation marker - can be divided into two categories, which also happen to fulfill two distinct pragmatic functions. One of them aims at attenuating a given speech act (of the stating or asking type), while the other one specifically provides a justification of the speaker's material intrusion into the addressee's sphere. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lfr_0023-8368_2004_num_142_1_6792 |
