From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse

Cristina Lastres-Lopez

From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country
Switzerland
Published
17 August 2021
Pages
254
ISBN
9783034342209

From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse

Cristina Lastres-Lopez

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This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The analysis comprises instances of subordination, namely, conditional constructions - including prototypical cause-consequence patterns as well as other conditionals in which the conditional meaning is weaker - and cases of insubordination introduced by if and si. The theoretical framework is based on the three metafunctions distinguished in Systemic Functional Linguistics, and the data analysed are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora. The examination of conditional constructions and cases of insubordination in parallel offers new light on the characterization of if/si-constructions and their uses and functions in interaction.

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