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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación

Reseña de la obra de Hernández Muñoz, Natividad, Muñoz-Basols, Javier y Soler Montes, Carlos. La... more Reseña de la obra de Hernández Muñoz, Natividad, Muñoz-Basols, Javier y Soler Montes, Carlos. La diversidad del español y su enseñanza. Londres/Nueva York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 978-03-676-5169-5. 378 páginas.

Spanish in Context, 2021

a El uso de las construcciones modales con deber (aquella en que va seguido de un infinitivo y aq... more a El uso de las construcciones modales con deber (aquella en que va seguido de un infinitivo y aquella en que entre ambos se inserta la partícula de) resulta de interés para un enfoque cognitivo-funcional de la elección gramatical como creación de significados. En este trabajo se realiza un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de ambas construcciones en un corpus de prensa y radio de una comunidad peninsular. Deber-Ø es con mucho la elección predominante, generalmente en enunciados de modalidad deóntica. Su uso esporádico en contextos epistémicos contribuye a reforzar la seguridad sobre el contenido, presentándolo como deducción lógica a partir de premisas contextuales. Por su parte, deber-de contribuye generalmente a atenuar la deonticidad del enunciado, favoreciendo su interpretación como hipótesis o sugerencia. Esta última construcción se asocia fuertemente a los contextos conversacionales, y resulta muy poco frecuente en el discurso de los periodistas y locutores de radio. Los re...

Gender and Language, 2015

The construction of sex/gender as a dynamic set of values in communicative interaction is a matte... more The construction of sex/gender as a dynamic set of values in communicative interaction is a matter of ever growing interest, superseding traditional approaches based on socio-structural and/or biological factors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the statistical patterning of linguistic choices across genders and the meaningful use of such elements in particular contexts. The main hypothesis is that large-scale patterns of variation are tightly connected to the dynamics of specific interaction: speakers are to some extent aware of the typical association of linguistic variants with social groups and interactional domains. In turn, their creative stylistic choices can help maintain or alter such associations. The variable expression of several Spanish subject pronouns is quantitatively and qualitatively analysed. The results indicate that male discourse usually shows higher rates of expressed subject pronouns, while women are more inclined to omissi...

Salamanca Revista De Estudios, 2009

Transactions of the Philological Society

Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017

Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profil... more Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profiling of the direct participants. This study analyzes the frequencies with which speakers index themselves, as well as the syntactic functions they preferably accord themselves when doing so, in a corpus of Spanish radio discourse where a range of textual genres and speaker socioprofessional identities are contemplated. The analysis is restricted to central syntactic functions, i.e. those with the capacity to establish agreement with the verb. A dichotomy is proposed between subject and (accusative or dative) object self-encoding, based on the different morphological means through which verbal agreement is carried out in this language, namely verbal endings and clitics. Both the statistical patterning of variation and the discursive-pragmatic motivations of particular choices are subsequently examined. The selection of a specific syntactic function for the encoding of the speaker is found ...

Memoria ID-0178. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovacion docente, curso 2015-2016.

Esta publicación nace con la intención de ayudar a los estudiantes universitarios en el momento e... more Esta publicación nace con la intención de ayudar a los estudiantes universitarios en el momento en que han de enfrentarse a la elaboración de un trabajo académico, ya sea un Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG), Trabajo de Fin de Máster (TFM) o cualquier otro estudio de similar naturaleza.

Studia Linguistica

Syntactic functions are best conceptualized as prototypical associations of features at a variety... more Syntactic functions are best conceptualized as prototypical associations of features at a variety of formal and semantic levels, which elements in actual clauses will match to different extents. In Spanish, the prototypical (accusative) object has a third‐person, inanimate, non‐autonomous entity as its referent. The encoding of the direct participants, i.e. the first and second persons, as syntactic objects will entail a displacement from the prototype that can have significant functional and meaningful effects. Based on a corpus of oral and written Peninsular Spanish, the study addresses the main patterns of quantitative variation and contextual choice of first‐ and second‐person object encoding. Both the differences across syntactic functions, persons and numbers and the main features of formal variability within the clause—explicit formulation vs. morphological indexation, as well as preverbal vs. postverbal placement when formulated—are taken into account. It is concluded that the cognitive salience associated with first‐ and second‐person objects makes them functionally and cognitively similar to syntactic subjects. In turn, the different choices related to their formal configuration can be used to modulate the degree of involvement attributed to their referents in the content of discourse

Discurso Y Sociedad Contribuciones Al Estudio De La Lengua En Contexto Social 2006 Isbn 84 8021 538 0 Pags 355 366, 2006

Studies in Language and Communication, 2014

Discourse & Communication, 2013

The purpose of this article is to analyze Spanish first-person plural subjects as a cognitively g... more The purpose of this article is to analyze Spanish first-person plural subjects as a cognitively grounded grammatical choice serving various discursive functions. Both the expressed and omitted variants of the subject will be considered, even if omission is by far the more frequent choice in Spanish and the more communicatively versatile one. The particularly vague reference of omitted nosotros ‘we’ – always involving an extension of the self towards a wider notional scope – results in a remarkable variety of possible contextual projections. It can be used to signal speaker identities as well as manage interpersonal relationships through the iconic suggestion of viewpoint coincidence. First-person plural clauses are quantitatively and qualitatively investigated across two corpora of contemporary Spanish comprising a variety of spoken and written genres. It is found that, aside from the basic distinction between hearer-exclusive and hearer-inclusive first persons, a third, intermediate variant can be considered, that of empathic hearer-exclusive uses. These are typical of interactions where involvement of the audience is sought even if they are not referentially included in the subject, as is usual in some varieties of spoken mass-media discourse. Each one of the referential variants is used with different frequencies and contextual repercussions, depending on the socio-functional demands and goals of particular textual genres.

Boletín de filología, 2010

The definition of morphosyntactic variables is generally grounded on the sameness of their varian... more The definition of morphosyntactic variables is generally grounded on the sameness of their variants at the descriptive semantic level; however, differences usually exist as to their discursive and cognitive values. Thus reflexive forms in the Spanish clitic paradigm can be seen as devices used to reinforce subject-verb agreement and generate certain meanings in discourse. Third-person se stands out among them due to its contextual versatility and the variety of uses attributed to it by descriptive grammar. However, from a functionalcognitive viewpoint it should be assumed that all such uses share a single semantic core, namely the notion that the subject becomes the endpoint of the action or process described by the verb. In this paper we will analyze syntactic and semantic variability of the position of se when adjoined to periphrases and other verbal compounds (e.g. Se puede hacer / Puede hacerse 'It can be done'). Quantitative and qualitative analysis will show that formal variation is closely related to the interpretation speakers make of the scene described in a clause, and particularly to aspects such as the salience and agentivity of the main entity in that scene.

Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH)

Fecha de recepción: 28 de abril de 2011.Fecha de aceptación: 18 de septiembre de 2012. La referen... more Fecha de recepción: 28 de abril de 2011.Fecha de aceptación: 18 de septiembre de 2012. La referencia genérica o inespecífica de la segunda persona del singular(tú) ha recibido atención en la tradición gramatical española.Cuando dicha persona se aleja de la deixis interlocutiva de segundapersona, estamos ante un recurso de objetivación en el discurso, queutilizan los hablantes para expresar contenidos proposicionales basadosen la esfera del yo, aportando un significado epistémico. Talrecurso se analiza en dos corpus de lengua española de distinta naturaleza(oral y escrito) y desde una perspectiva variacionista cognitiva,según la cual la prominencia y la informatividad de los referentes desegunda persona propician respectivamente la expresión y la omisiónde este pronombre, así como su distinta distribución textual.