A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC ACCOUNT OF BE GOING TO

Authors
NICOLLE S
Citation
S. Nicolle, A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC ACCOUNT OF BE GOING TO, Journal of linguistics, 33(2), 1997, pp. 355-377
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Language & Linguistics
Journal title
Journal of linguistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00222267
Volume
33
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
355 - 377
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2267(1997)33:2<355:ARAOBG>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
This paper provides a relevance theoretic account of the semantics of the be going to construction in English, based on Klinge's (1993) mode l for the semantics of the modal auxiliaries, and in particular of wil l. The semantics of both forms will be accounted for in terms of the r elation between linguistic representations of situations and cognitive domains. Finally the pragmatics of utterances of sentences containing will and be going to will be discussed.