A relevance-theoretic account of be going to

1997/09/01 by STEVE NICOLLE, Steve Nicolle
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · doi:10.1017/s0022226797006567

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Abstract

This paper provides a relevance theoretic account of the semantics of the be going to construction in English, based on Klinge's (1993) model for the semantics of the modal auxiliaries, and in particular of will . The semantics of both forms will be accounted for in terms of the relation between linguistic representations of situations and cognitive domains. Finally the pragmatics of utterances of sentences containing will and be going to will be discussed.

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