A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si constructions in English, French and Spanish: A corpus-based study

• Autores: Cristina Lastres López
• Directores de la Tesis: Teresa Fanego (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez (presid.), José Carlos Prado-Alonso (secret.), Diana M. Lewis (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura y Cultura por la Universidad de A Coruña; la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y la Universidad de Vigo
• Materias:
  • Lingüística
    • Lingüística sincrónica
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
• Resumen

  • This thesis explores if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The analysis comprises both conditional constructions and cases of insubordination introduced by the same conjunctions, with the belief that the examination of both types of constructions in parallel will offer new light on their characterization. The theoretical framework proposed is based on the three metafunctions distinguished in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) and the data analysed are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora in the three languages.