Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Spanish Venga and its English equivalents: A contrastive study of teenage talk
Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Anna-Brita Stenström
Description
This chapter focuses on the various uses of venga in Madrid teenagers’ conversations and the way these uses are realized in London teenage conversations. As the paper shows, the closest English equivalent of the pragmatic marker venga in most of its uses is come on.