Distance, evidentiality and counter-argumentation: Concessive future in Spanish

The aim of this paper is to examine the connection between Spanish concessive future and evidentiality. More specifically, it is argued that concessive future does not merely represent a contextual variant of conjectural future (Escandell, 2010) but a new use (Squartini, 2012) which is restricted by...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 2015-08, Vol.85 (Aug), p.181-199
Main Author: Rodriguez Rosique, Susana
Format: Article
Language:English
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Concessive future
Counter-argumentation
Distance
Evidentiality
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to examine the connection between Spanish concessive future and evidentiality. More specifically, it is argued that concessive future does not merely represent a contextual variant of conjectural future (Escandell, 2010) but a new use (Squartini, 2012) which is restricted by the activated status of the proposition (Dryer, 1996). Unlike conjectural future, concessive future does not have an inferential purpose; instead, it plays a role within the (counter) argumentation process. It actually develops a déréalisant function (Ducrot, 1995). Therefore, although conjectural use and concessive use share the deictic value of future, they are the projection of this value over different levels of meaning. More generally, this paper shows that future in Spanish may intersect with several semantic and discourse categories, including – but not limited to – evidentiality.
ISSN:0378-2166
1879-1387
DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.017