Variationist study of mitigation II: Microanalysis of discourse sequences, speech acts and mitigating resources

Authors

  • Marta Albelda Marco UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA
  • Ana María Cestero Mancera UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ

Keywords:

Mitigation, diaphasic variation, dialectal variation, PRESEEA, spoken Spanish

Abstract

The study of pragmatic mitigation has been prioritized in the last decades, particularly in speech-related disciplines such as discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Nevertheless, the sociopragmatic and geolectal variability of mitigation in Spanish has barely been studied. This is the main objective of this paper (which complements the research presented in Cestero & Albelda, 2020), which aims to examine the state of the art on sociolinguistic variation in mitigation strategies, especially within the framework of the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America (PRESEEA). The present article addresses two further aspects: a study in greater depth of some discourse sequences and speech acts and some specific mitigation resources, and a diaphasic comparison between the results obtained from the PRESEEA corpus and those from other corpora. The findings of the present report suggest that variations in mitigation are not only dialectal and sociolectal but also diaphasic.

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Published

2020-12-01

How to Cite

Albelda Marco, M., & Cestero Mancera, A. M. (2020). Variationist study of mitigation II: Microanalysis of discourse sequences, speech acts and mitigating resources. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 53(104). Retrieved from https://revistasignos.cl/index.php/signos/article/view/700

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 104 (2020): December

Section

Monographic Section Articles

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