This work aims to study the use of ‘vos’ in the Bolivian East, more specifically, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Based on a corpus composed of audio recordings of Whatsapp text messages between parents and children, our objective is to verify if the form of treatment used is compatible with the required situational variation. For the analysis, we used...
There is not and there has never been, in the Spanish pronominal system, a more unstable field than that of second person plural forms. This grammatical subsystem has unceasingly evolved since the origins of the language. It has been conditioned by the need to renovate the forms of treatment of respect towards the listener. Social use inevitably de...
The demonstrative pronoun οὗτος (‘that one’) can be employed in Ancient Greek as a form of treatment (FT). Examples in Attic drama are formally diverse: it frequently appears alone but can also be followed by the second person pronoun (σύ), or even by a noun in the vocative case. Svennung (1958) explained this construction as resulting from a proce...
Resumen En este artículo se examina la alternancia entre los tratamientos de segunda persona -tú, usted, sumercé y vos- al dirigirse a un único interlocutor en Bogotá, Colombia. Se trata de un fenómeno poco descrito en la literatura, pero bastante frecuente y sistemático en el español bogotano. A partir de datos orales (fragmentos de conversaciones...
Resumen El estudio de las formas de tratamiento del español constituye uno de los mayores desafíos en el contexto de la investigación empírica, por la gran variabilidad que presentan en el nivel formal y de uso en el conjunto panhispánico. En este trabajo nos interesamos, concretamente, por la evolución registrada en la presentación de estas formas...
The study of the Spanish address forms constitutes one of the greatest challenges in the domain of the empirical research, due to their great variability in the level of the form and in the use of the language in the pan-hispanic context. In this work we focus, specifically, on the evolution registered in the presentation of the address forms in th...
This paper examines the alternation forms between the 2nd person treatment —tú, usted, sumercé and vos— when it comes to address a single interlocutor in Bogotá, Colombia. Whilst a case vaguely described in the literature it is though quite frequent and systematic in the Spanish of Bogotá. Based on oral data (fragments of spontaneous conversations ...
Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
This article analyses the usage of T/V forms of address in Peninsular Spanish in a context of high formality —four interviews on Spanish national television of ca. 40 minutes each to frontbench politicians by top political analysts. Whilst the interviewers used V consistently, from the different choices of T/V pronouns made by the interviewees a nu...
The study reflected on the movement experienced in the power/solidarity axis, which affects the use of forms of treatment in an urban community of Santiago de Cuba, related to the socio-economic transformations of recent decades in Cuba. After the collection of data and its comparison by data triangulation taken from other parts of Santiago, it was...
This paper presents an example of the kind of work implemented in SFL classroom to enhance students´ cultural awareness. It suggests a way of critically observing how interpersonal relationships are constructed in and through the Spanish language: it deals specifically with personal address in Spanish, an area where the linguistic resources involve...
