Actuellement jako diskurzní částice?

• Authors: Čapková Andrea , Malá Markéta

Title variants

EN

Actuellement as a Discourse Marker?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article presents a corpus-based study of potential discourse functions of the French adverb actuellement similar to those of the English adverb actually. Despite their common etymological origins nowadays these two adverbs have different meanings. While the available literature assigns only the functions of a temporal adverbial to the French actuellement, the English actually has developed functions of an adversative or elaborative discourse marker in addition to those of a disjunct and subjunct. Nonetheless, some of the occurrences of actuellement attested in synchronic monolingual corpora (Lextutor-Parlé and Araneum Francogallicum Minus) suggest that the French adverb may also perform contrastive discourse functions, in particular in connection with the conjunction mais. Actuellement may also serve to introduce a new topic, even though this discourse-organizing function is represented only marginally in the corpora.

Keywords

CS

actuellement; actually; discourse functions; contrastive discourse marker

EN

actuellement; actually; diskurzní funkce; kontrastivní diskurzní částice

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 174-180

Contributors

author

Čapková Andrea

• Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy | Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1

author

Malá Markéta

• Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy | Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1