Variación morfosintáctica e interacción social : análisis del paradigma de los clíticos verbales españoles en los medios de comunicación

Oliva, Miguel Ángel Aijón; Ángel, Miguel

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“…These subsections have varied sizes in the corpus, ranging from some 15,000 to some 60,000 words, which is due to the intention of approximately reflecting the unequal representativeness of genres in mass communication as a whole and thus achieving a more realistic picture of it (see the extended discussion in Aijón Oliva, 2006, ch. 3).…”

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“…1 It would be of little help to equate the distinction with that between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’ choices, since speaker awareness is a very elusive criterion for the explanation of linguistic usage (Sankoff, 1988: 154). What is more, Finegan and Biber (2001) suggest that functional features tend to become ‘social’, that is, institutionalized, over time; that is, both facets of variation could actually be part of a single continuum (see Aijón Oliva, 2006: 681). Rather than proposing formal taxonomies that will be scarcely useful when analyzing real communication, we see it as a potentially interesting avenue to explore linguistic choices as carrying out ‘social functions’: all communication is social in some way, and functions would be hardly comprehensible outside the social contexts where they are enacted.…”

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“…)’ and other (expressed or omitted) nosotros subjects in the surrounding context. In these cases, even if the audience is not referentially subsumed in the subject – this being still exclusive – it is, however, iconically incorporated in the verbal nucleus through a clitic that can in fact be analyzed as an object-agreement morpheme (see Aijón Oliva, 2006, ch. 4).…”

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Seguimos con la actualidad . . . The first-person plural nosotros ‘we’ across Spanish media genres

Serrano

Oliva

2013

Discourse & Communication

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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.

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Seguimos con la actualidad . . . The first-person plural nosotros ‘we’ across Spanish media genres

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Oliva

2013

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“…Spanish has an objective conjugation system (Llorente and Mondéjar 1974, Aijón Oliva 2006: 173–174). Clitics should not be considered to be personal pronouns but should instead be seen as agreement morphemes due to their atonicity, strict adjacency to verbs, and ability to co-occur with coreferential tonic pronouns and noun phrases in the same clause (Aijón Oliva 2017b).…”

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Managing subjectivity: Omission and expression of first-person singular object a mí in Spanish media discourse

Serrano

2018

Can. J. Linguist.

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In considering the cognitive notion of informativeness, variants of the Spanish first-person singular objecta mí‘to me’, ‘myself’ convey different meanings. These meanings are used to pursue communicative goals in discursive interactions. A qualitative examination of specific examples of first-person singular objecta mívariants (omitted, preverbal, and postverbal) as well as a quantitative analysis of these variants across different socio-professional affiliations of speakers was conducted to ascertain how these variants contribute to the construction of communicative styles based on the cognitive dimension of subjectivity. This article demonstrates that these forms and their meanings are unevenly distributed across the socio-professional affiliations of speakers; thus, it may be concluded that variation of first-person singular objecta míshape different communicative styles.

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“…A continuación, conjugando el análisis cuantitativo y el cualitativo de los materiales, intentaremos explicar los valores principales que posee la colocación del clítico. 11 El texto completo del corpus aparece como anexo en Aijón (2006). Todos los textos incluidos son de ámbito local y fueron recogidos entre los años 2003 y 2004.…”

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La posición de se en las estructuras pluriverbales: variación y significado

Oliva

2010

Boletín de Filología

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ResumenLa definición de variables morfosintácticas suele basarse en la identidad de sus variantes en el nivel semántico descriptivo; no obstante, a menudo existen diferencias en los planos del discurso y la cognición. Así, las formas reflexivas del paradigma de los clíticos son elementos que se añaden al lexema verbal para reforzar la concordancia del sujeto con el verbo y generar con ello ciertos significados. Entre ellas destaca la de tercera persona, se, por su versatilidad contextual y la variedad de usos que le ha atribuido la gramática descriptiva. Desde un enfoque funcional-cognitivo, es necesario suponer que tales usos comparten un único núcleo semántico: la noción de que el sujeto se convierte en término de la acción o proceso que describe el verbo. En este trabajo analizaremos la variación sintáctico-semántica de la colocación del clítico se en las perífrasis y otras construcciones pluriverbales (así, Se puede hacer / Puede hacerse). El análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo permite descubrir que la variación formal se halla estrechamente relacionada con el modo en que los hablantes interpretan la escena descrita en una cláusula, y en especial con aspectos como la prominencia y la agentividad del elemento protagonista de esta. AbstractThe 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.

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Variación morfosintáctica e interacción social : análisis del paradigma de los clíticos verbales españoles en los medios de comunicación

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Seguimos con la actualidad . . . The first-person plural nosotros ‘we’ across Spanish media genres

Seguimos con la actualidad . . . The first-person plural nosotros ‘we’ across Spanish media genres

Managing subjectivity: Omission and expression of first-person singular object a mí in Spanish media discourse

La posición de se en las estructuras pluriverbales: variación y significado

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