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“So respetamos un tradición del uno al otro”: So and entonces in New Mexican bilingual discourse
Author(s): Jessi Elana Aaronpp.: 161–179 (19)More LessThis paper examines the use of two discourse markers, English-origin so and Spanish-origin entonces, in New Mexican bilingual speech. Both forms appear in the mixed speech and in the otherwise monolingual English and monolingual Spanish of bilingual speakers in New Mexico. Through a quantitative examination of the 413 uses of so (n=289) and entonces (n=124) in a 204,000-word corpus, it is found that both perform the same discourse functions with the same relative frequency, thus showing no evidence of specialization. It is also shown that so occurs with code-switches significantly more often than entonces, and therefore may function as a “trigger” for code-switches (cf. Clyne 1997). This switching is not preferred in certain contexts, but rather follows the same patterns as in monolingual discourse. Lastly, it is found that the use of so in monolingual Spanish and monolingual English shows no significant differences: it is used in the same way in both modes.
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Complaint stories in male contexts: The power of emotions
Author(s): Virginia Acuña Ferreirapp.: 181–213 (33)More LessGender and discourse studies have traditionally reacted to the negative dominant beliefs on women’s gossip by defending its role in the construction of female solidarity. This perspective proves inadequate to the extent that it ignores particular forms of female gossip which highlight patterns of competition between women and excludes the possibility that men could engage in the practice of gossip too. In this article, I aim to contribute to recent research documenting men’s gossip by analysing complaint stories about third parties among men, a variety of gossip first analysed by Günthner (1997) in female contexts. The analysis highlights the emergence of patterns of emotions display which have not been previously found in women’s complaint stories. I conclude by emphasizing the importance of addressing talk in both female and male contexts in gender and discourse studies, to avoid the perpetuation of stereotyped images of women’s and men’s talk.
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Una frontera sociolingüística en el Uruguay del siglo \sc xix\endsc : Lengua española e identidad nacional
Author(s): Pilar Asenciopp.: 215–239 (25)More LessEl trazado de fronteras entre Uruguay y España se analiza a partir de la lengua como uno de los lugares desde los que se construye la nación. Las principales representaciones de la lengua en ese período, clave para la conformación del estándar nacional, permiten postular que la norma lingüística se define en torno a ciertas dicotomías, que se infieren en los discursos de algunos intelectuales uruguayos reconocidos de ese período y que operan como principios de división, trazando fronteras entre lo legítimo y lo ilegítimo en el terreno de la lengua. La dicotomía civilización/barbarie parece actuar, en los mencionados discursos, como fundamento de una decidida opción por la norma española, dividiendo a la sociedad en descendientes de españoles, por un lado y gauchos e inmigrantes por el otro. Esto es refrendado, a fines del período, por la oficialización de representaciones de nuestros orígenes como “etnológicamente uniformes”.
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The function of mitigation in the context of a socially stigmatized disease: A case study in a public hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay
Author(s): Roxana Delbenepp.: 241–266 (26)More LessThis paper studies the pragmatic function of mitigation in the context of a stigmatized disease, such as the HIV/AIDS infection.1 The function of mitigation is analysed by applying the theoretical frameworks of Fraser (1980, 1990) and Caffi (1999). By means of the close-reading technique and quantitative procedures, it has been possible to observe that mitigation is the most common verbal behaviour used in the 34 interviews between physicians and their seropositive patients, collected in a public hospital in Uruguay. By illustrating the use of mitigation in a particular interview, it is argued that mitigation not only functions as a ‘disqualification’ strategy (Caffi 1999) but also that there is a fine line between mitigation and deception. The traditional association between politeness and mitigation (Fraser 1980) is called into question. In the context of an infectious disease that jeopardizes public health, mitigation and politeness are seen in a antagonistic rather than complementary relationship.
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Comunicación afectiva en el discurso político venezolano: Estudio del pronombre pseudoinclusivo “nosotros”
Author(s): María Jesús Nieto y Oteropp.: 267–284 (18)More LessResumenPlanteo que el discurso político del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, recurre a estrategias de comunicación afectiva con particulares fines. El artículo contextualiza el discurso en la situación política actual de Venezuela. Emplea como marco teórico el análisis crítico del discurso (Fairclough 2001; Bolívar y Khon 1999) y la comunicación afectiva (Janney y Arndt 1992; Nieto y Otero 2002). Los pronombres personales constituyen el objeto de estudio (Alvar 2000; Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1997; Haverkate 1994). La metodología consistió en identificar los pronombres de primera persona del plural y clasificarlos en inclusivos o pseudoinclusivos al analizar su uso en el contexto. El corpus consiste en 12 horas de grabación de discursos del presidente, transmitidos por televisión. Los resultados indican que el presidente Hugo Chávez emplea el pronombre pseudoinclusivo como estrategia de comunicación afectiva, porque el presidente involucra a todos los venezolanos en sus discursos, mientras que el contexto revela la exclusión que aplica a ciertos grupos sociales.
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Volume 21 (2024)
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Volume 14 (2017)
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