<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Correlative conjunctions (such as <italic>buď – anebo</italic> (either – or), <italic>jednak – jednak</italic> (firstly – secondly) etc.) represent one means of textual cohesion. The occurrence of one component of the pair implies the use of the other, which contributes to the cohesiveness of a text. Using data provided by the corpus of informal spoken Czech ORAL2013, I will try to demonstrate their use in a prototypical spoken language, that is commonly considered less coherent and more fragmentary compared to written language.</p></abstract>

Correlative conjunctions (such as buď – anebo (either – or), jednak – jednak (firstly – secondly) etc.) represent one means of textual cohesion. The occurrence of one component of the pair implies the use of the other, which contributes to the cohesiveness of a text. Using data provided by the corpus of informal spoken Czech ORAL2013, I will try to demonstrate their use in a prototypical spoken language, that is commonly considered less coherent and more fragmentary compared to written language.

Correlative Conjunctions in Spoken Texts

The Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Correlative conjunctions (such as buď – anebo (either – or), jednak – jednak (firstly – secondly) etc.) represent one means of textual cohesion. The occurrence...

Correlative Conjunctions in Spoken Texts

Online veröffentlicht: 24. Jan. 2018

Seitenbereich: 305 - 315

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0040

Schlüsselwörter
correlative conjunctions, spoken Czech, ORAL2013, corpus

© 2017 Petra Poukarová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Correlative Conjunctions in Spoken Texts

Online veröffentlicht: 24. Jan. 2018

Seitenbereich: 305 - 315

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0040

Schlüsselwörtercorrelative conjunctions, spoken Czech, ORAL2013, corpus

© 2017 Petra Poukarová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
correlative conjunctions, spoken Czech, ORAL2013, corpus