Corpus-based studies in various languages have demonstrated that some connectives
are used preferentially to express subjective versus objective meanings, for
example, omdat vs. want in Dutch. However, Spanish connectives have been understudied
from this perspective. Moreover, most of the studies of subjectivity have focused on
explicit relations and little is known about the subjectivity of implicit coherence
relations. In addition, the role that text type plays in the meaning and use of causal
relations and their connectives is still under discussion. This study aims to analyze
the local contexts of Spanish causal explicit and implicit relations in different text
types by carrying out manual analyses of subjectivity. 360 relations marked by three
prototypical causal connectives and 120 implicit relations were extracted from academic
and journalistic texts. The analytical model applied is based on an integrative approach
to subjectivity. Statistical analyses indicate a particular behavior of Spanish
connectives and implicit relations and a three-way interaction between subjectivity,
text type, and linguistic marking in journalistic texts. Therefore, this study reveals
new insights into subjectivity in Spanish discourse.
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