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Download full textAltunay, Dilek – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
The connective 'but' mainly represents two different contrastive relations (Lakoff, 1971; Van Dijk, 1979; Blakemore, 1989). One of them is semantic, which shows semantic opposition and where no expectation is denied. The other is pragmatic, which shows a denial of expectation. This study aimed to investigate the use of 'but' by Turkish EFL…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semantics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
