Deverbal discourse-pragmatic markers in English and Spanish: A contrastive corpus-based study on 'wait' and 'espera'
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Pragmalinguistica.2023.i31.10Info
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- Cristina Lastres-López (ES) Universidad de Sevilla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1011-1770
- Nazaret Camacho-Salas (ES) Universidad de Sevilla
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This paper offers a contrastive analysis of two deverbal discourse-pragmatic markers, English wait and its equivalent in Spanish espera. Although discourse-pragmatic markers have been widely explored over the years, wait and espera have received very little scholarly attention, especially from a contrastive viewpoint. This paper intends to contribute to fill this gap in the literature by offering a corpus-based analysis of English wait and Spanish espera as discourse-pragmatic markers. The data analysed are retrieved from the spoken component of the British National Corpus 2014, for English, and Corpes XXI, for Spanish. The results throw light on the uses of these two discourse-pragmatic markers, distinguishing five different discourse functions and unveiling some similarities and differences across the two languages examined.
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