Macrosyntactic and discursive analysis of 'te lo prometo'
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the discursive behaviour of te lo prometo, from a pragma-linguistic and argumentative perspective. After a brief description of its macrosyntactic behavior (its position inside the statement, function of the pauses, combination with other linguistic elements ...), I demonstrate how te lo prometo is undergoing a grammaticalization process: it is losing its original meaning, to acquire strategic discursive functions (intensifier of the assertion, element of argumentative force, element of (im)politeness, irony ...) in informal argumentative texts.
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