Distinctive Usage of Though and Although: Presupposition vs. Assertion

• 영문명: Distinctive Usage of Though and Although: Presupposition vs. Assertion
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Hyun-tahk Chay
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제18호, 63~84쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.12.01

영문 초록

This paper investigates into the distinctive usage of although. and conjunction though Most studies tend to treat although as the mere formal variant of though (cf Burchfield 1996 46; also see Biber et al 1999·845) However, my pilot study of 30 native American speakers of English and an analysis of the corpus (MICASE for spoken data & my own collections for the written data) expose the different usage of these two items. The study suggests that the points of 'indirectness' made by Collins (1995) should be interpreted as the semantic difference rather than stylistic variation It also argues, following Sidiropoulou (1992), that although bears certain 'assertion' besides the 'presupposition' thought to be the common semantic property of both conjuncts. Coupled with semantic differences, the study presents the distinctive function of the two conjuncts as wen: discourse-wise, though has the function of connecting words and phrases within a sentence (e g. gap-filling), while although involves the organization of discourse (e g topic-marking) (cf Barth 2000)

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Semantics of although and though

3. Though and although as a discourse market

4. Conclusion

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Appendix Ⅱ