Interpersonal Meanings of Mood Tags in Chilean Spanish
Keywords:
Mood tag, interpersonal metafunction, systemic functional grammarAbstract
The purpose of this article is to explore the meanings of mood tags in Spanish in the interpersonal metafunction and in the lexicogrammatical strata from a systemic functional perspective of language. To that end, a trinocular approach is employed to describe these linguistic resources by using samples of speech from the PRESEEA corpus of the Spanish spoken in Santiago, Chile. The main findings demonstrate the presence of delicate or specific options for mood tags in the MOOD system. The data shows two entry conditions for mood tags. On the one hand, a type of mood tag that involves negotiation and presents interpersonal meanings of agreement, understanding, exhortation, and mitigation. On the other hand, the data shows the presence of a tag which does not implies negotiation, but rather provides meaning associated with the textual metafunction and allows the organization of messages as a communicative act. With the results obtained, we propose a system of MOOD TAGS for the MOOD system in Chilean Spanish.
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