The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2 : : Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian / / Isabel Repiso.
Counterfactual thinking is a universal cognitive process in which reality is compared to an imagined view of what might have been. This type of reasoning is at the center of daily operations, as decision-making, risk preventability or blame assignment. More generally, non-factual scenarios have been...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
56 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 148 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Tables and figures
- Dedication
- Quote
- Introduction
- 1. Counterfactuality: a theoretical overview
- 2. Expressing conditionality in French, Spanish and Italian
- 3. Acquisition of counterfactuality in L1 and L2
- 4. Methodology
- 5. Results in L1 French, Spanish and Italian
- 6. Results in L2 French
- 7. Discussion
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index