@article{Goreti Pezatti_Storti Garcia_2023, title={Multifunctionality of mas ‘but’ in Portuguese}, volume={120}, url={https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/9718}, DOI={10.13092/lo.120.9718}, abstractNote={<p>Hengeveld/Mackenzie (2008: 52) consider that the constructions with <em>mas</em> ‘but’ result from the combination of two Discursive Acts with different communicative statutes, there being a Nuclear Discursive Act, with greater communicative weight, and a Subsidiary Discursive Act, which will have a rhetorical function named “Concession”. This paper aims to investigate the various uses of <em>mas </em>‘but’, according to Functional Discourse Grammar, in order to determine the pragmatic, semantic, and morphosyntactic properties of each case in real occurrences of Portuguese. The combination of linguistic units through <em>mas</em> ‘but’ always indicates interpersonal strategies, which are differentiated by the communicative intention of the speaker as well as reflected in the layer involved. However, <em>mas</em> maintains the capacity to attribute the most salient status of information to the unit it scopes or operates on. We identified four uses of <em>mas</em> ‘but’ in different layers: Move Operator in the Move layer, Emphasis Operator and Concession rhetorical function in the Discursive Act layer, and the Contrast pragmatic function in the Communicated Content layer.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Linguistik Online}, author={Goreti Pezatti , Erotilde and Storti Garcia, Talita}, year={2023}, month={Mai}, pages={89–104} }