SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC MITIGATION IN THE HIGH SOCIOLECT OF PRESEEA-SANTANDER

Authors

  • Marta Gancedo Ruiz Universidad de Cantabria
  • Inmaculada Martínez Martínez CIESE-Fundación Comillas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v13i1.27732

Keywords:

mitigation, Northern Spanish, semi-directed interview, sociolectos patterns, PRESEEA

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to carry out a sociolinguistic analysis of the use of mitigation in a corpus of semi-formal interviews recorded in the city of Santander as part of the "Proyecto de estudio sociolingüístico del español de España y América (PRESEEA)" (Project for the sociolinguistic study of Spanish in Spain and America), studying 18 interviews (540 minutes) with highly educated Santander speakers distributed in three age groups (20-34 years; 35-55 years, and 55 years and older) and two sexes (women and men). Specifically, an exploratory study is carried out on the sociolinguistic behavior of the presence, form and function of attenuating elements.  The results show that, on the one hand, the fundamental function of mitigation is the speaker's self-protection. On the other hand, the preferred attenuating linguistic procedures of Santander speakers are phatic contact formulas, the expression of opinion in the form of doubt or probability, external morphological modification and impersonalizations.

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Published

2023-12-13

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Gancedo Ruiz, M., & Martínez Martínez, I. (2023). SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC MITIGATION IN THE HIGH SOCIOLECT OF PRESEEA-SANTANDER. Normas, 13(1), 296–315. https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v13i1.27732
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023)

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