(Non-Deictic, Socio-Expressive) T-/V-Pronoun Distinction in Spanish/English Formal Locutionary Acts

Ardila, Juan Antonio Garrido

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“…However, recent research (Ardila 2003a) has suggested that the usage of the address pronoun usted has dwindled owing to the historical circumstances of Spain in the second half of the 20th century. That work (Ardila 2003a) and another by Woodward (1997) have further argued (and attested) that the usage of the formal address forms (e.g. usted in Spanish and, inter alia, you + sir/madam/miss or you + title + surname in English) is much higher in English than in Spanish.…”

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“…I shall not compare Spanish to British politeness, but I shall borrow from previous comparative studies in order to defi ne a number of culturally-defi ned politeness norms in Spain. For example, bearing in mind that research (Woodward 1997;Ardila 2003a) suggests that Spaniards use the Spanish T-pronoun where Britons use deference formulae, I shall determine which term of address is desirable according to Spanish cultural norms, and which term of address is actually used on the idiosyncratic level. In so doing, I intend to measure Spanish politeness-impoliteness, but also to learn about the actual differences and similarities between the cultural norms and the performance of politeness in Spain, and the performance of politeness in Britain.…”

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Metapragmatic First-Order Politeness in Peninsular Spanish

Ardila¹

2017

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Research on Spanish politeness has developed dramatically in the past decade. One of the most infl uential theses regarding Spanish politeness was posited by Hickey (1991), who, in comparing Spanish to English, concluded that Peninsular Spanish has a positive politeness model. Subsequently, a number of linguists have further compared politeness in Spain to politeness in Britain. In analysing countless samples of expressive politeness (i.e. requests, apologies, terms of address, etc.), these authors have come to the conclusion that positive politeness predominates in Spain. However, such critical tendencies ignore the latest trends in politeness studies: one year after the publication of Hickey´s (1991) essay, Watts et al. (1992) vindicated the need to discern fi rst-order politeness from second-order politeness, and put forward the relevance of metapragmatic discussions of politeness. Descriptivist assessments of Spanish politeness prevent linguists from attempting a metapragmatic methodology that help to determine where Spanish speakers stand in the politeness-impoliteness continuum. Nonetheless, current research on general politeness studies clearly envisages that this is a task that Spanish linguistics will need to fulfi l in the long run.

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Metapragmatic First-Order Politeness in Peninsular Spanish

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2017

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“…Martín Zorraquino and Portolé s Lá zaro 1999) and the use of usted vs. the more common tú in this variety of Spanish (cf. Marín Marcos 1972;Ardila 2003). Very few of them mentioned the presence of the child as a possible appeasement.…”

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A Comparative Study of Certainty and Conventional Indirectness: Evidence from British English and Peninsular Spanish

Reiter¹

2005

Applied Linguistics

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This article presents the results of an exploratory empirical study into the perception of conventionally indirect requests in British English and Peninsular Spanish, given the high incidence of the pragmatic category over others in its encoding of politeness in both related and unrelated languages (cf. Blum-Kulka et al., 1989). More specifically, the article focuses on the similarities and differences between Britons and Spaniards with regard to the speaker's assumed expectations of compliance in choosing from the conventionally indirect spectrum. In other words, the focus is on how (un)certain the speaker was that the addressee would comply with the request when s/he chose a particular conventionally indirect request. The data for this study were collected via an open role play, post-performance interviews and questionnaires. The results obtained show that, in comparable situations, the Spaniards were generally more certain that the addressee would comply with the request than the Britons. It is argued that conventional indirectness appears to reflect different social meanings in English and Spanish and that such differences should be taken into account when analysing the realization patterns of pragmatic categories in language.

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“…De hecho, las investigaciones del español han hecho evidente que los pronombres de segunda persona del singular han evolucionado en cuanto al número de uso, a favor de tú (Ardila, 2003;Blas Arroyo, 1995, 2005aCarricaburo, 1997;de Jonge y Nieuwenhuijsen, 2012;León-Castro Gómez, 2014;Moliner, 1977;Soler-Espiauba, 1994). En euskera, el número de uso de los pronombres de segunda persona del singular también ha evolucionado notablemente, principalmente en detrimento de hi, aunque aparentemente, el cambio en euskera no ha sido tan destacable como en el español peninsular, al menos durante los últimos quinientos años (Alberdi, 1991(Alberdi, , 1995de Rijk, 1991;Echeverria, 2003;Euskaltzaindia, 1985;Trask, 2003;Zubiri y Zubiri, 2000).…”

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“…Como se ha mencionado al principio de este capítulo, en el español de la Península Ibérica, parece evidente que durante los últimos años ha disminuido el uso del pronombre de segunda persona del singular usted, tradicionalmente presente en ámbitos formales (Ardila, 2003;Soler-Espiauba, 1994). En cuanto al euskera, hay diferentes registros que podrían ser interpretados a través de la teoría de la cortesía verbal, pero los registros principales que utilizan los hablantes vascos son zuka e hika -en el Capítulo II se desarrolla una breve descripción de los otros registros y las razones por las que no son abordadas en el análisis de este trabajo- (Wolpert, Mancini y Caffarra, 2017).…”

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Los pronombres de segunda persona del singular y la cortesÃa verbal en espaÃ±ol peninsular y en euskera

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Metapragmatic First-Order Politeness in Peninsular Spanish

A Comparative Study of Certainty and Conventional Indirectness: Evidence from British English and Peninsular Spanish

Los pronombres de segunda persona del singular y la cortesÃ­a verbal en espaÃ±ol peninsular y en euskera

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