Style in syntax

Oliva, Miguel Ángel Aijón; Montesinos, María José Serrano

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“…From the point of view of linguistic phenomena, it will also be necessary to more specifically address the variable expression and placement of both subject and object pronouns and lexical NPs (for the specific case of subject pronouns, see Aijón Oliva & Serrano 2013 and references therein) and to consider other syntactic functions, namely peripheral or non-agreeing objects, as well as deictic-anaphoric elements such as possessives. It is only this way that it will be possible to accomplish a complete picture of participant interactional profiling and its cognitive correlates.…”

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“…It follows that, by encoding some participant as subject, the speaker makes it come under the focus of attention and thus enhances its salience (see García 2009: 52-54 for the specific case of Spanish). Furthermore, other syntactic features such as the expression vs. omission of elements, as well as their preverbal vs. postverbal placement in languages allowing such choices, also decisively interact with the structure of events and the relative salience of the participants within them (Delbecque 2005;Aijón Oliva & Serrano 2013;Serrano 2014Serrano , 2017.…”

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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk

Oliva

2017

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. Syntactic and discursive choices in context 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 tend to accord themselves when doing so, in a corpus of Peninsular Spanish radio discourse featuring a variety of textual genres and speaker socioprofessional identities. The analysis is restricted to indexations of the singular first person in 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 to serve communicative goals related to the textual genre and to the kinds of socio-professional identities speakers intend to develop within it. Significant correlations are obtained between higher percentages of self-encoding as subject and of discursive self-indexation altogether, although speakers presenting themselves as political representatives diverge from this tendency for particular communicative reasons. The results are interpreted as being parallel to a discursive-cognitive continuum between subjectivity and objectivity that underlies speaker interactional self-profiling and discourse construction.Keywords: Syntactic variation; agreement; interactional profiling; subjectivity; objectivity; radio talk. RESUMEN: Las elecciones sintácticas y discursivas en contexto constituyen recursos para el desarrollo de los perfiles interaccionales de los participantes directos. El presente estudio analiza las frecuencias con las que los hablantes se indexan a sí mismos, así como las funciones sintácticas que se atribuyen preferentemente al hacerlo, en un corpus de español peninsular de los medios de comunicación, el cual refleja una variedad de géneros textuales e identidades socioprofesionales. El análisis se restringe a las indexaciones de la primera persona del singular en funciones sintácticas centrales, esto es, las que poseen la capacidad de establecer concordancia con el verbo. Se plantea una dicotomía entre autocodificación como sujeto y como objeto (acusativo o dativo), teniendo en cuenta los diferentes recursos morfológicos con que se realiza la concordancia verbal en esta lengua: desinencias verbales y clíticos. Seguidamente se examinan los patrones estadísticos de la variación, así como las motivaciones discursivo-pragmáticas de ejemplos específicos. Se comprueba que la selección de una determinada función sintáctica para codificar al hablante obedece a objetivos comunicativos relacionados con el * This paper is part of the research project "Variación gramatical y creación del si...

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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk

Oliva

2017

Borealis

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Análisis cognitivo-discursivo y situacional de las formas de tratamiento en función de sujeto y de objeto en español

Serrano

2018

SiC

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Las formas de sujeto y de objeto de segunda persona singular tú/usted y te/a ti; le, lo, la /a usted son recursos que posee la lengua española para indexar a los participantes en las distintas situaciones discursivas. Pocos estudios han profundizado en los valores cognitivos que subyacen a esta elección y, de forma general, se prefiere seguir aludiendo al eje de solidaridad-poder para su explicación. Para ello se suele recurrir a un conjunto de factores meramente descriptivos (edad, distancia social, respeto, etc.). Este trabajo pretende contribuir al desarrollo del conocimiento de estos pronombres desde una perspectiva discursivo-cognitiva y situacional, que, además presenta como novedad la distinción entre las funciones de sujeto pronominal y objeto de persona. Para ello se realizará un análisis cognitivo-discursivo basado en la prominencia de los referentes de estas formas en distintos géneros y situaciones comunicativas y entre hablantes de distintas afiliaciones socioprofesionales. Se utilizarán textos del Corpus Conversacional del Español de Canarias (CCEC).

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Morphosyntactic stereotypes of speakers with different genders and sexual orientations: an experimental investigation

Posio,

Kachel,

Uclés-Ramada

2024

Linguistics

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Previous research has identified differences in language use between speakers representing different genders and sexual orientations, as well as stereotypical beliefs about the existence of such differences. The present paper investigates such stereotypical beliefs among speakers of two varieties of Spanish and explores whether linguistic stereotypes of gender and sexual orientation are stronger in a society with more conservative gender roles. We conducted an experiment where 252 speakers of European and Mexican Spanish were shown pairs of texts and sentences depicting the same event but differing in the use of morphosyntactic resources, creating stereotypically “masculine” and “feminine” variants of the same text or sentence. The informants were asked which of the variants was more likely uttered by a woman (rather than a man), a lesbian woman (rather than a straight woman), or a gay man (rather than a straight man). Some of the morphosyntactic features were strongly associated with speaker gender (e.g., use of first- and second-person singular) and others with lesbian (e.g., use of impersonal structures) or gay speakers (e.g., direct reported speech). Contrary to expectations, the responses did not differ according to informants’ age, gender, or nationality. While the present study did not reveal any differences between the two societies, more cross-linguistic and cultural research is needed to elucidate the effect of society on morphosyntactic variation and stereotypes thereof.

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Style in syntax

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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk

Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk

Análisis cognitivo-discursivo y situacional de las formas de tratamiento en función de sujeto y de objeto en español

Morphosyntactic stereotypes of speakers with different genders and sexual orientations: an experimental investigation

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