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Análisis pragmático y fonoprosódico del aproximativo "más o menos"
2018
espanolEste estudio se ocupa del analisis pragmatico de la particula mas o menos en relacion con la caracterizacion prosodica. Este aproximativo funciona en ciertos contextos como mero modificador semantico, si bien en la conversacion se emplea con frecuencia como recurso al servicio de la atenuacion. Con el analisis de la correlacion prosodia y funciones (no) atenuantes, se pretende testar la hipotesis de que los valores pragmaticos tienden a manifestarse en algun rasgo prosodico de manera recurrente. Para este fin, se ha recabado una muestra con ejemplos procedentes del corpus de conversaciones coloquiales de Briz/Grupo VAL.ES.CO. (2002), Cabedo/Pons (eds.) y de C-ORALROM (Cresti/Moneglia…
Evidential al parecer: Between the physical and the cognitive meaning in Spanish scientific prose of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries
2015
Abstract Some of the evidential particles and adverbs in Spanish are believed to have developed during the 18th and 19th centuries. This also coincides with the consolidation of scientific writing in Spanish, a genre that holds a special relation with the expression of sources of information. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to study the evolution of the Spanish evidential discourse particle al parecer (‘seemingly, apparently’) in scientific texts of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Our analysis shows that in the period under review the occurrences of the evidential particle al parecer were dominant, but they were not the only uses of this construction. It coexisted…
Entre la sintaxis y el discurso: el caso de 'a lo mejor' y 'al menos' en la conversación coloquial
2018
This paper studies the Spanish forms a lo mejor (maybe) and al menos (at least) from a modular perspective, revisiting the categorization of a lo major and al menos according to the involved linguistic level and analyzing the relations between the adverbial uses of these forms and the discursive ones. Such relations show that the forms a lo mejor and al menos can be considered bicategorial lexical items, what is implemented by a corpus study based on data from spoken language.