Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics

Schneider, Klaus P.; Barron, Anne

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“…As observed by Schneider and Barron (2008), region is a macro social factor that interacts with other macro (and micro) social factors. Indeed, looking at address usage according to the sex of the participants, we found, for example, that overall, taking all three locations together, males used address forms more frequently than females, with the largest difference across gender groups being found in Quito, and the smallest, in Santiago.…”

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Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

2015

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Nominal and pronominal address forms, which play a central role in the construction of interpersonal relations (cf. Bargiela et al. 2002;Clyne, Norrby and Warren 2009), have been the focus of attention in different linguistics subfields for several decades now. Less attention, however, has been paid to these forms from a variational pragmatics (Schneider and Barron 2008) perspective, particularly in Spanish.Using a corpus of role play interactions, we examine the impact of region and gender on nominal address usage among male and female university students from Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain). We look at how these forms are employed in rapport management (Spencer-Oatey 2008 Among the findings recorded was a larger repertoire of nominal forms in the Santiago and Quito data sets relative to the Seville corpus, with the highest frequency of use in Santiago. We suggest that address usage in the dyadic contexts examined is connected to the expression of affect and involvement, with Chileans (Santiago) and Ecuadorians (Quito) displaying more affect than Spaniards (Seville). Contrary to early research suggesting that women employ more affiliative language than men (cf. Lakoff 1995), overall, males in the present study were found to use address forms more frequently than females across the three locations.

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Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

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“…13 These data were initially collected to examine regional variation in speech act realization (Schneider and Barron's (2008) actional level). However, it was clear from our initial analyses that the conversational nature of the talk elicited for this study, from -SD -P scenarios, meant that there were a range of interactive markers in use that could also be examined.…”

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“…Schneider & Barron 2008;Schneider & Placencia, forthcoming), in discourse markers in general (cf. Schiffrin 1987;Fraser 1990Fraser , 1996Fraser , 1999, and in Spanish in particular (cf.…”

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“…Variational pragmatics is a discipline of recent creation (Schneider & Barron 2008) that examines the influence of macrosocial factors such as region, gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic background on language use in context. Schneider and Barron (2008:20-21) distinguish five levels of analysis for language use in interaction: the actional or illocutionary level; the interactional or sequential level; the topic or content level; the organizational or turn-taking level, and the formal level.…”

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Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

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2016

Journal of Pragmatics

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Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)The discourse marker pues in spoken Spanish has been studied extensively in Peninsular Spanish (cf. Fuentes Rodríguez 1987;Portolés 1989;Garcés Gómez 1992). There is also a growing body of studies on pues in Latin American varieties of Spanish ( Some shared features as well as features of variation were observed. Concerning function, for example, pues was found to occur as both a connector and an operator across varieties; however, we found a clear preponderance of pues as an operator in Quito and Santiago, and of pues as a connector in Seville. IntroductionThe discourse marker pues in spoken Spanish has been studied extensively in

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“…There is an extensive literature on the use of forms of address in German and on other related aspects of German pragmatics (e.g., Becker 1960;Besch 1998;Braun 1988;Clyne et al 2009;Kretzenbacher et al 2006;Kuntzsch 2004;Schneider & Barron 2008;House 2005;Ehlich 2005). The focus of this literature, however, is usually sociolinguistic rather than semantic.…”

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This paper investigates the meaning and use of the German word Herr as a form of address, in a historical and cross-linguistic perspective. The paper argues that despite their apparent insignificance, generic titles used daily across Europe, and in all the parts of the world to which European languages have travelled, can reveal complex and intricate webs of cultural assumptions, attitudes, and values, as well as how these assumptions, attitudes, and values change across time and space. Terms of address available for everyday use in a particular language can provide keys to the inmost recesses of the speakers' cultural and mental worlds. But if we are to use these keys effectively, we need some basic locksmith skills. Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) semantics, with its stock of primes and molecules and its mini-grammar for combining these into semantic texts, provides both the necessary tools and the necessary techniques. It allows us to practice semantic microanalysis with rigor and accountability, while at the same time exploring big questions of values, history, and culture. There has been an upsurge of interest in nominal terms of address in recent years, but as illustrated by the rich and valuable recent volume S'adresser à autrui (2014), edited by Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, research of this kind focuses on frequencies, forms, and functions, with virtually no mention of meaning -as if basic titles such as Monsieur and Madame, Signore and Signora, or Herr and Frau had no meaning at all. As a result, while formal and functional aspects are carefully examined, the secrets hidden in the meanings of such words (and in their semantic evolution) escape scholars' attention. To uncover these secrets and to bring to light their cultural significance, we need an appropriate methodology. By putting the German word Herr under the microscope, this paper demonstrates that NSM is a methodology that allows it to be done in illuminating and empirically verifiable ways. 2Anna Wierzbicka

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Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics

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Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)

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