Causality and Subjectivity in Spanish Connectives:        Exploring the Use of Automatic Subjectivity Analyses in Various Text        Types

Santana, Andrea; Nieuwenhuijsen, Dorien; Spooren, Wilbert; Sanders, Ted

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“…For puesto que ('given that') the results were mixed: whereas the segment preceding the connective (S1) was associated with many subjective words, the other segment (S2) contained a relatively low percentage of subjective words, which could indicate that this connective is used to express both subjective and objective relations. As these results (Santana et al, 2017) differ from the literature on Spanish connectives, this raises the issue of the semantic-pragmatic profile of the causal connectives. Are the differences of use between the three connectives so subtle that they do not turn up in an automatic analysis of subjectivity?…”

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“…Zufferey et al, (2017) also provided empirical evidence that register is a distinguishing factor between connectives car and parce que. A final example is our previous study, in which we identified a significant relationship between the use of Spanish causal connectives and text type (informative versus persuasive/argumentative texts) in journalistic texts and between the use of Spanish causal connectives, text type (informative and persuasive/argumentative texts) and domain (Education and Psychology) in academic texts (Santana et al, 2017).…”

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“…In a recent corpus-based study (Santana et al, 2017), we explored the degree of subjectivity of Spanish connectives by carrying out automatic analyses. The results showed all three connectives occur with a relatively high frequency.…”

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Subjectivity in Spanish Discourse: Explicit and Implicit Causal Relations in Different Text Types

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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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“…More recent discourse-oriented studies have switched the focus, paying special attention to the relation between coherence relations and connectives. In this scenario, it is possible to identify, at least, two types of studies on explicit causal coherence relations: those interested in describing the prototypical use of causal connectives (Cao et al, 2016;Santana et al, 2017;Santana et al, 2018) and those intended to account for the variety of linguistic devices that may signal causal relations (Taboada & Gómez-González, 2012;Duque, 2014). To the best of our knowledge, there have not been previous studies combining both approaches.…”

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“…A pattern of use different from specificity is that of polyfunctionality, which means that a connective can be used to signal different types of coherence relations (Fischer, 2006;Blackwell, 2016). In Spanish, connectives porque ('because') and debido a ('due to') may be considered polyfunctional, as they may signal either subjective or objective causal coherence relations (Santana et al, 2017;Santana et al, 2018;Cárcamo, 2019).…”

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Signaling of Causal Relations in Spanish: Variety, Functionality, and Specificity

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While some recent studies on Spanish have shown that some causal discourse markers specialize in expressing certain types of causal relations, others have revealed that causal relations may be signaled by a variety of linguistic devices. Given that we were interested not only in specificity and variety, but also in the (poly) functionality of signals, our objective in the present study was threefold. First, to identify the variety of markers used to signal causal relations in Spanish. Second, to describe the (poly) functionality of those causal markers. Third, to determine whether there exists a relationship of specificity between markers and particular types of causal relations. We analyzed a corpus of 2,514 causal coherence relations previously annotated. 40 different linguistic devices used to signal causal relations were identified. These devices were grouped into two main classes: Discourse Markers and Cue Phrases. Regarding the (poly) functionality of the markers, we found that 8 of the most frequent markers were used to signal different relations. Regarding specificity, it was observed that various conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs specialize in signaling specific relations.

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Subjectivity and Causality in discourse and cognition

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2019

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Cognitively oriented linguists have various linguistic resources at their disposal, and therefore need to develop methodological strategies of when to use which method. This chapter illustrates the benefits of using converging evidence. We review research results from several methodologies, including the use of corpus-based, acquisition and processing data, in order to illustrate what kinds of insights this brings at the level of discourse. The results suggest that Causality and Subjectivity are two basic cognitive notions that organize our knowledge of coherence relations. They help us explain the system and use of causal relations and their linguistic expressions in everyday language use, and they account for discourse processing and representation, as well as the acquisition order of connectives.

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Causality and Subjectivity in Spanish Connectives: Exploring the Use of Automatic Subjectivity Analyses in Various Text Types

Cited by 10 publications

References 57 publications

Subjectivity in Spanish Discourse: Explicit and Implicit Causal Relations in Different Text Types

Subjectivity in Spanish Discourse: Explicit and Implicit Causal Relations in Different Text Types

Signaling of Causal Relations in Spanish: Variety, Functionality, and Specificity

Subjectivity and Causality in discourse and cognition

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