Variation in the use of nominal forms of address in Spanish: A comparison of usage among Ecuadorian and Spanish young women on Facebook
From a variational pragmatics perspective (Schneider and Barron, 2008), this paper compares the use of nominal forms of address (NFA) among young women from Quito, Ecuador, and Andalusia, Spain, on Facebook. It examines similarities and differences in the NFA categories and modification mechanisms e...
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| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/12241 |
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| Sumario: | From a variational pragmatics perspective (Schneider and Barron, 2008), this paper compares the use of nominal forms of address (NFA) among young women from Quito, Ecuador, and Andalusia, Spain, on Facebook. It examines similarities and differences in the NFA categories and modification mechanisms employed, the speech acts in which they occur, the position they occupy within an utterance, and the functions they appear to serve in the digital interactions examined. The study thus adds to the existing body of work on NFA in digital contexts (Cautín-Epifani y Gladić, 2019) as well as regional pragmatic variation in Spanish (Schneider and Placencia, 2017; Placencia, 2020a). The results show both shared uses and some regional particularities. Regarding the former, the influence of the digital medium, for example, can be observed in the two groups through the prosodic resources employed (e.g., vowel prolongation). With respect to differences, although the same NFA categories are employed in the two corpora examined, there is variation in the incidence of some of these categories and some of the modification mechanisms used. As for their function, in general, NFAs seem to be used in both corpora as expressions of affiliation and reinforcement of social relations although they can fulfil other functions too. |
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