TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja A1 - Schlaak, Claudia T1 - Así que als Diskursmarker N2 - The present paper discusses Spanish así que (‘so that’) as a discourse marker by means of data that are retrieved from the Corpus del Español. The synchronic study has both a quantitative and a qualitative side. From a quantitative perspective the use of así que as a discourse marker is compared with its use as a conjunction. It is shown that así que as a conjunction is far more frequent. The qualitative analysis focuses on the different procedural meanings of así que: it can be used to introduce a summary, a consequence or an inference, and, on behalf of the interlocutor, even a question. The study furthermore reveals that así que as a discourse marker can well be analysed in terms of adfunctionalization / capitalization, i.e. when an already existing means of expression becomes exploited for wider purposes. In this context, the notions of grammaticalization, lexicalization and pragmaticalization are also briefly discussed. KW - Diskursmarker KW - Konjunktion KW - Adfunktionalisierung KW - así que Y1 - 2015 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7541 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-75412 ER -