A variable syntax of speech, gesture, and sound effect: Direct quotations in Spanish

Cameron, Richard

doi:10.1017/s0954394500001216

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“…Turning to syntactic variables, Weiner and Labov (1983) as well as Estival (1985) found perseverations in the use of passive structures. Likewise, Cameron (1998) identified perseverative patterning of direct quotations in Spanish. Specifically, a verb of direct report at one point more strongly favors verbs of direct report in immediately following quotations than other quotation options.…”

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Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish

Cameron¹,

Flores-Ferrán²

2004

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Models of communication strictly as a function of intention and controlfounder when confronted by variationist findings of perseveration at different levels of linguistic structure in use. When Poplack (1981) finds that Spanish [s] leads to more [s] and that "zeros lead to zeros," it is unclear how speaker intention is involved. But, it is clear that what a speaker says at one point will influence what this same speaker says next. Here we identify perseveration of pronominal and null subjects in three dialects of Spanish: Madrid, San Juan, and New York City. In null subject Spanish, expression of subject pronouns leads to more pronouns, and expression of null subjects leads to more nulls. We argue that a perspicuous account of perseveration may be found within Spreading-Activation Theory (Dell 1986), a psycholinguistic theory of production based on speech errors. Thus, this work integrates quantitative dialect description with psycholinguistic explanation.

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Section: Perseveration Found In Other Studiesmentioning

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Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish

Cameron¹,

Flores-Ferrán²

2004

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“…Llama la atención la escasa frecuencia del discurso directo con pronombre personal (DDPRO) verificada en nuestros materiales. Este último resultado contrasta con los de Cameron (1998) en su estudio sobre las formas de manifestación del estilo directo en San Juan (Puerto Rico), quien destaca esta variante como la más vernacular (Cameron, 1998). Probablemente, este contraste se deba a la tendencia a expresar el pronombre sujeto con mayor frecuencia sobre todo en el habla caribeña (Blas Arroyo, 2005).…”

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Una aproximación sociolingüística al empleo del discurso referido en el corpus PRESEEA de Santiago

Martín

González

2013

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ResumenEn este artículo se analiza el empleo del discurso referido en el habla de Santiago de Chile desde el punto de vista sociolingüístico. Para tal propósito, se estudiaron las secuencias discursivas en las que se manifestó dicho recurso en 54 entrevistas que forman parte del Corpus Sociolingüístico del PRESEEA en Santiago de Chile. Para el marco conceptual de esta investigación se consultaron los estudios sobre la polifonía del lenguaje (Ducrot, 1986;Reyes, 1993) y el análisis sociolingüístico del discurso (Silva-Corvalán, 2001;Serrano, 2006). En el análisis se consideró el discurso referido como un caso de variable sociolingüística, en un sentido amplio del concepto, con dos valores o variantes generales: el discurso directo y el discurso indirecto y con diferentes subtipos o variantes específicas de acuerdo con distintos niveles o grados de reformulación y distanciamiento del sujeto respecto de su enunciado. Consecuentemente, se correlacionaron los factores sociodemográficos de los sujetos con el empleo de dichas variantes, los que demostraron tener incidencia en su empleo. Por otra parte, como variable interna se analizó el tipo de secuencia discursiva en la que las variantes generales del discurso referido aparecían con mayor frecuencia, confirmando el predominio del empleo de dicho recurso en las narraciones, si bien su participación como parte del repertorio de recursos argumentativos de los sujetos también es importante. Finalmente, se verificó que las mujeres suelen emplear con mayor frecuencia el discurso directo como una estrategia pragmática mediante la cual intentan dotar de mayor teatralidad a sus narraciones en forma de 'mini-dramas'.Palabras Clave: Sociolingüística, análisis del discurso, variación discursiva, español de Chile, discurso referido.

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“…Some early work on quotation has only looked at individual newcomer variants (plus sometimes the most common other quotatives) without accounting for all other variants that make up the variable (Waksler 2001; Barbieri 2005). However, as Cameron (1998) rightly argues, we can only effectively comprehend the linguistic and social reality of a variant if we understand the proportional role it plays within the variable as a whole . Hence, if we want to investigate how all patterns we need to make sure that we include all possible variants into our set of competing alternatives, all , like , go , say , unframed, and a number of low‐frequency variants, which can be grouped into the category ‘other’ (in 2–6).…”

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The Quantitative Analysis of Morphosyntactic Variation: Constructing and Quantifying the Denominator

Buchstaller

2009

Language and Linguist. Compass

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At its inception, the sociolinguistic enterprise focused on research on phonological variability and only later broadened its remit to include ‘variability [that] occurs and can be dealt with at level of grammar above (and beyond) the phonological’ (Sankoff 1972:45). This extension, however, has not been without controversy and continues to fuel heated debates in the field. This article addresses some of the contentious issues that quantitative research on (morpho‐)syntactic variation has brought about. Can we operationalise variation in the field of morphosyntax as a sociolinguistic variable? If yes, how do we define such a variable? Is morphosyntax constrained in the same way as variation in the sound system? How do we quantify variability in the field of morphosyntax in an accountable manner? What do we quantify out of? I also introduce some of the methods used by researchers dealing with non‐phonological variation, focusing especially on the quantification of morphosyntactic and discourse variables.

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A variable syntax of speech, gesture, and sound effect: Direct quotations in Spanish

Cited by 99 publications

References 48 publications

Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish

Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish

Una aproximación sociolingüística al empleo del discurso referido en el corpus PRESEEA de Santiago

The Quantitative Analysis of Morphosyntactic Variation: Constructing and Quantifying the Denominator

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