Communicative constructions in English and Spanish

Martínez-Vázquez, Montserrat

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“…As noted in the introduction, there are very few studies that have been carried out comparing English and Spanish speech verbs in SFEs (Rojo & Valenzuela 2001, Martínez Vázquez 2005, Caballero 2015). These studies are concerned with the ways in which speech events are lexicalised and how meaning structures are evoked through those expressions.…”

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Verbs in speech framing expressions: Comparing English and Spanish

Rodríguez

Paradis

2017

J. Ling.

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In this study, we explore how direct speech is portrayed in English and Spanish SPEECH FRAMING EXPRESSIONS (SFEs). The study has two aims. Firstly, we survey the use of verbs in SFEs and offer a comprehensive inventory of those verbs in English and Spanish as representatives of Germanic and Romance languages respectively in order to determine what verb meanings are used to cue direct speech, what lexical resources express these meanings, and how rich and varied these vocabularies are in the two languages. Secondly, the comparisons across the languages provide the basis for a theoretical contribution to the debate about general typological differences in the semantics and lexicalization patterns of verbs in Germanic and Romance languages to the area of verbs for speech and to meaning modelling in general. Five main semantic categories of verbs were identified: SPEECH, ACTIVITY, PERCEPTION, COGNITION and EMOTION. We show that Spanish features a much more varied repertoire than English and makes more use of verbs related to the domains of thinking and reasoning, while the physical domain is the preferred one in the English data set. It emerges that even though the same types of lexical resources are available in both languages, the ways of describing direct speech vary greatly.

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“…Like Caballero (2015), Martínez Vázquez (2005) also investigates the use of verb types in communicative acts in English and Spanish. She investigates the subcategorization patterns of verbs of saying within the framework of Construction Grammar à la Goldberg (1995).…”

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Verbs in speech framing expressions: Comparing English and Spanish

Rodríguez

Paradis

2017

J. Ling.

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“…The main point of contention in the research comparing the latter is the way each language uses manner-of-speaking verbs, which has yielded contradictory results. Thus, Faber and Sánchez (1990) and Martínez Vázquez (2005) have stressed the lexical and rhetorical differences between English and Spanish -therefore supporting their characterization as typological opposites. Martínez Vázquez (2005) also pays attention to the different use of non-speech verbs in both languages (e.g., discharge verbs such as cough/toser, or gesture verbs such as nod/cabecear, smile/sonreír) claiming that, although syntactically possible in Spanish, their use is outnumbered by constructions combining two verbs (mover la cabeza + asentir vs. shake one's head) or a verb plus an adverbial (decir estridentemente vs. shriek).…”

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“…In contrast, the main verbs in Spanish lexicalize the basic meaning of such English verbs (sonreír, decir, and mirar) and express Manner in adjuncts (arrastrando las sílabas -'dragging the syllables' -and a los ojos -'at the eyes, fixedly'), yet 'lose' the attitudinal information implicit in beam and glower. Interestingly, the passages also illustrate the reporting use of non-speech verbs in fictional narratives (see also the discussion in Lehrer, 1988;Ware, 1993;Caldas-Coulthard, 1994;Martínez Vázquez, 2005). This use is foregrounded in the Spanish versions, which usually incorporate speech-proper verbs such as decir ('say') or preguntar ('ask') in the constructions, and turn the original English verbs into adjuncts conveying the gestural and physical-auditory traits of the interaction.…”

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“…Both lines of research include studies which approach speech verbs and constructions from a typological and/or contrastive perspective, and compare either typologically similar languages such as African languages (Güldemann, 2008) and English and German (Dirven, 1990;Snell-Hornby, 1983) or such different languages as Italian and English (Mastrofini, 2013) and English and Spanish (Contreras, 1988;Faber & Sánchez, 1990;Suñer, 2000;Rojo & Valenzuela, 2001;Martínez Vázquez, 2005). The main point of contention in the research comparing the latter is the way each language uses manner-of-speaking verbs, which has yielded contradictory results.…”

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Showing versus telling

Caballero¹

2016

RCL

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In this paper I provide a qualitative description of the verbs used to introduce Direct Speech (DS) in fictional narratives written in English and their Spanish translations in order to compare the way these two languages reconstruct speech events in texts by means of both speech verbs (e.g., say/decir, counter/ argumentar, declare/manifestar) and non-speech verbs (e.g., grin/sonreír, scowl/ fruncir el ceño). Using a corpus of popular fictional narrative genres and drawing upon typological research on motion after the work by Talmy (1985, 1988, 1991) and Slobin (). I look into the strategies used in English and Spanish for recreating speech events in order to explore whether the typological differences between these languages are replicated in the case of speech. The hypothesis is that, contrary to what happens with motion events, the differences between English and Spanish do not rest upon lexical availability but, rather, on the weight placed in different speech elements in agreement with two different agendas regarding speech events. While congruent with typological studies, this piece of research attempts to broaden their scope and explore a topic still underexplored.

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The event structure of verbs of emotion in Russian

Sonnenhauser

2010

Russ Linguist

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The present paper is concerned with 'reflexivised' verbs of emotion in Russian such as radovat'sja or zlit'sja, which are, as a rule, regarded as the subject-experiencer derivation of a basic non-reflexivised object-experiencer verb (i.e. radovat' and zlit'). However, upon closer analysis these verbs reveal an event structure that differs in crucial respects from that of true subject-experiencer verbs such as ljubit' or uvažat'. The need of positing reflexivised verbs of emotion as a separate type besides subject experiencer and non-reflexivised object experiencer verbs can be seen from their ability to appear in the construction 'direct speech + verb of emotion'. It will be shown that it is the event structure of reflexivised verbs of emotion that is basic for both the ability of those verbs to appear in that construction and the 'utterance'-interpretation they are ascribed there.Аннотация Данная статья посвящена 'возвратным' гаголам эмоций в русском языке как, например, радоваться или злиться. Подобные примеры обычно рассматривают-ся как глаголы с экспериент-субъектом, производные от невозвратных гаголов эмоций с экспериент-объектом (т.е. радовать и злить). Однако при более пристальном ана-лизе семантическая структура этих глаголов оказывается существенно отличающейся от семантической структуры настоящих глаголов с экспериент-субъектом, таких как любить или уважать. На необходимость считать возвратные глаголы эмоций от-дельной группой указывает их употребление в конструкциях типа 'прямая речь + глагол эмоций'. Как показывает анализ, именно семантическая структура возвратных глаголов эмоций представляет основу для употребления этих единиц в указанной

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Communicative constructions in English and Spanish

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Verbs in speech framing expressions: Comparing English and Spanish

Verbs in speech framing expressions: Comparing English and Spanish

Showing versus telling

The event structure of verbs of emotion in Russian

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