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The sociolinguistics of exemplification in spoken French in Montréal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Diane Vincent
Diane Vincent
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Université Laval
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Abstract

Exemplification is considered to be a rhetorical procedure used to illustrate a point. In spoken discourse, we can attribute to it an argumentative and pragmatic character. In this study, the data base is constituted of utterances marked by exemplification particles (par exemple, comme, genre, style, mettons, and disons ‘for example’, ‘like’, ‘of the (…) kind’, ‘of the (…) variety’, ‘let's say’) extracted from two corpora of spoken French in Montréal. One goal is to describe the constraints which govern the choice of discourse variant and at the same time to get the deepest insights possible into the procedure that interrelates these constraints. The main objective is to observe to what extent we can have access to the characteristics of a complex rhetorical phenomenon by using sociolinguistic data.

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Research Article
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Language Variation and Change , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 1992 , pp. 137 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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