Abstract

FUENTES RODRIGUEZ, Catalina. [Qué + Swear Word] as an Intensifying Comment of an Assertion. Lexis [online]. 2023, vol.47, n.1, pp.5-38.  Epub July 12, 2023. ISSN 0254-9239.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202301.001.

The construction [qué + swear word] appears in different discursive contexts. It can act as an independent statement, as a complex interjective variant, in reactive interventions, or is integrated within an utterance, occupying peripheral positions. In the latter context, it develops procedural contents similar to those of discourse markers: specifically, it develops a meaning of reformulation and another one of reconsideration, in which it adds an argumentative counterorientation to what is expected by the listener. This paper analyses its functions from a linguistic-pragmatic perspective which takes into account the macrosyntactic functions of the construction.

Keywords : interjection; swear word; comment; intensification.

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