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Chapter 8. The Spanish quotative según across written genres

  • Ana Llopis Cardona
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Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish
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Abstract

This research aims to provide an insight into characterization of quotative markers from a specific and prototypical Spanish one, según. The analysis is corpus-based, specifically the data comes from four different genres (academic articles, essays, news and novels). Our study examines the linguistic features, the source of information, the combination with reporting verbs, and the frequency in relation to genres. Thus, it underlines that, in contrast to the counterpart in other languages, the evidential function of según is fulfilled by means of a prepositional phrase or a clause bringing a reporting verb. Also, it demonstrates the modification of the prototypical specific source (3d person) causes a reduction of reliability as a pragmatic extension, and it shows the evidential function is the most frequent across written genres and has increased significantly in news.

Abstract

This research aims to provide an insight into characterization of quotative markers from a specific and prototypical Spanish one, según. The analysis is corpus-based, specifically the data comes from four different genres (academic articles, essays, news and novels). Our study examines the linguistic features, the source of information, the combination with reporting verbs, and the frequency in relation to genres. Thus, it underlines that, in contrast to the counterpart in other languages, the evidential function of según is fulfilled by means of a prepositional phrase or a clause bringing a reporting verb. Also, it demonstrates the modification of the prototypical specific source (3d person) causes a reduction of reliability as a pragmatic extension, and it shows the evidential function is the most frequent across written genres and has increased significantly in news.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Evidentiality in discourse 1
  4. Chapter 2. On the dynamicity of evidential scales 25
  5. Chapter 3. Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920) 49
  6. Chapter 4. Performing the self in illness narratives 73
  7. Chapter 5. Evidentiality, deonticity and intensification in Internet forum language 107
  8. Chapter 6. Prosody, genres and evidentiality in Spanish 125
  9. Chapter 7. ‘No sé’ 147
  10. Chapter 8. The Spanish quotative según across written genres 173
  11. Chapter 9. según along time 205
  12. Chapter 10. Tenses in interaction 223
  13. Index 251
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.290.08llo

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Evidentiality in discourse 1
  4. Chapter 2. On the dynamicity of evidential scales 25
  5. Chapter 3. Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920) 49
  6. Chapter 4. Performing the self in illness narratives 73
  7. Chapter 5. Evidentiality, deonticity and intensification in Internet forum language 107
  8. Chapter 6. Prosody, genres and evidentiality in Spanish 125
  9. Chapter 7. ‘No sé’ 147
  10. Chapter 8. The Spanish quotative según across written genres 173
  11. Chapter 9. según along time 205
  12. Chapter 10. Tenses in interaction 223
  13. Index 251
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