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Teaching Special Questions: The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in Colloquial Interrogative Structures in Spanish
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Fernández-Sánchez, Javier; García-Pardo, Alfredo – Hispania, 2023
In this paper we analyze the semantic and pragmatic properties of a colloquial interrogative construction attested in European Spanish, which we label invariable "qué" questions (IQQs). In doing so, we contribute to the better understanding of a relatively understudied phenomenon in Spanish, given that IQQs have been mainly approached…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Variation, Spanish
Del uso sociolinguistico de las oclusivas posnucleares en el espanol peninsular norteno (On the Sociolinguistic Use of Post-Nuclear Occlusives in North Peninsular Spanish).
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Anton, Marta M. – Hispania, 1998
A sociolinguistic analysis of pronunciation patterns of postnuclear occlusive consonants in northern peninsular Spanish resulted in (1) understanding of the vitality of the use of distinct allophonic variations; (2) characterization of sociolinguistic usage tendencies in relation to speakers' demographic characteristics; and (3) identification of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Estudio sociolinguistico de una variante sintactica el fenomeno "dequeismo" en el espanol canario (Sociolinguistic Study of a Syntactic Variant: The "Dequeismo" Phenomenon in Canary Islands Spanish).
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Serrano, Maria Jose – Hispania, 1998
The dequeismo phenomenon is occurring more frequently in spoken Spanish in both Spain and in Latin America. Introduction of the preposition "de" before "que" in nominal complements exploits one recourse in Spanish, namely the deictic capacity of prepositional "de" as a marker or introducer of the speaker's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation