[Qué + Swear Word] as an Intensifying Comment of an Assertion

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 cont...

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Autor: Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Recursos:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27037
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/27037
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Interjección
Término malsonante
Comentario
Intensificación
Interjection
Swear word
Comment
Intensification
Descrição
Resumo: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.