Causal connectives in Dutch and French: The case of puisque and aangezien on the speaker involvement scale
(2000) Language, Culture and Cognition conference — Location: Leiden (22.March.2000)
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- In my talk I would like to contrast the causal connectives puisque and aangezien ('since') on the Speaker Involvement Scale (Degand & Pander Maat, 1999). This scale is an alternative proposal to classify the use and meaning of connectives. Instead of using classical dichotomies or trichotomies, the scale accounts for the distribution of (causal) coherence relations and connectives in terms of increasing speaker involvement. Speaker involvement refers roughly to the degree to which the present speaker plays an active role in the construal of the causal relation. Speaker involvement increases, first, with the extent to which the relation concerns the evolving structure of the present discourse, that is the extent to which the relation is located in the here-and-now of the speech situation. Second, it increases with the number and strength of the assumptions the speaker is committed to in using a particular relation. Point of departure of my contrastive analysis of puisque and aangezien are the very diverging frequencies of the connectives. In a newspaper corpus, the frequency of puisque is of 165 (per 1 million words), while that of aangezien merely reaches 35 (per 1 million words). The question I would like to tackle in my presentation is whether these divergences in frequency are reflected in diverging distribution patterns.
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Degand, L. (2000). Causal connectives in Dutch and French: The case of puisque and aangezien on the speaker involvement scale. Language, Culture and Cognition conference, Leiden. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/241907