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This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French
and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based
perspective. The analysis comprises instances of subordination,
namely, conditional constructions - including prototypical
cause-consequence patterns as well as other conditionals in which
the conditional meaning is weaker - and cases of insubordination
introduced by if and si. The theoretical framework is based on the
three metafunctions distinguished in Systemic Functional
Linguistics, and the data analysed are retrieved from parliamentary
discourse and conversations corpora. The examination of conditional
constructions and cases of insubordination in parallel offers new
light on the characterization of if/si-constructions and their uses
and functions in interaction.
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