Hacia un análisis de las relaciones discursivas contraargumentativas en el español de Cataluña

Abstract

Joan G. BURGUERA SERRA: Towards an Análisis of Counter-argumentation Discourse Relationships in the Spanish from Catalonia. The study of the counter-argumentation discourse relationships has mainly been based on the analysis of those markers that incorporate a procedural meaning of opposition or contrast between two discourse segments. In our study, we propose a description of the particular use of the pero and por eso as counter-argumentation markers in the Spanish of Catalonia. In this way, we opt for a contrastive focus in which we will compare the values that the correlates of these forms in Catalonian (però y per això) have with the use of pero and por eso in a standard variety of Spanish. Finally, we describe the functionality of the latter in the Spanish spoken in Catalonia by taking into consideration the situation of contact of languages and concepts like those of linguistic interference or convergence. In the results found in our analysis one can observe a difference in both the pragmatic meaning as well as in the distributional properties that we link to pero and por eso in standard Spanish and in the Spanish used in Catalonia.