La relazione concessiva fattuale in italiano e polacco. Il caso della codifica adeguata

Abstract

This paper investigates different forms of expression of factual concessive relation in two Indo-European languages: Italian and Polish. In contrast to traditional accounts of concession, the starting point of the analysis are not specific linguistic forms but the conceptual structure of the relation. Concession, considered here a pre-formed, constant and shared relational concept, configures a complex relationship based on the implicit assumption of frustrated causality which can be conceived independently of the linguistic organization and expressed in a language in multiplicity of ways. Focusing on one particular linguistic “scenario”, namely the full coding device, characterized by a perfect correspondence between the content of a linguistic expression and that of an autonomous conceptual relation, the paper describes systematically a variety of Italian and Polish concessive constructions belonging to the realm of grammatical connections and to the domain of textual cohesion.