[Qué + Swear Word] as an Intensifying Comment of an Assertion

• Autor: Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27037
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/27037
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Interjección; Término malsonante; Comentario; Intensificación; Interjection; Swear word; Comment; Intensification

The construction [qué + swear word] appears in different discursive contexts. It can act as an independent statement, as a complex interjective variant, in reactive interventions, or is integrated within an utterance, occupying peripheral positions. In the latter context, it develops procedural contents similar to those of discourse markers: specifically, it develops a meaning of reformulation and another one of reconsideration, in which it adds an argumentative counterorientation to what is expected by the listener. This paper analyses its functions from a linguistic-pragmatic perspective which takes into account the macrosyntactic functions of the construction.