Abstract
In this study we analyze ego-documents and metalinguistic texts from nineteenth century and early twentieth century Chilean Spanish showing a number of cases of phonetic-phonological hypercorrections. Our focus is the interaction between language-normative discourses and language use. We work with the assumption that hypercorrections are a symptom of the speakers’ linguistic consciousness regarding the norm and the (overt) prestige associated with certain variants, and thus they reveal the influence that normative ideas exert over language use. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Chilean Spanish underwent a process of linguistic standardization, which manifested itself through a number of ‘disciplinary texts’ (grammars, dictionaries) that offered an exoglossic normative model. Chilean Spanish differed from this normative model in a number of features which were subject to overt condemnation and also were precisely those affected by hypercorrection in our data.
Funding statement: This study was partially funded by: research grant FONDECYT 1150127, CONICYT, Chile; research grant INNOV-11-12, Iniciativa Bicentenario Juan Gómez Millas, University of Chile; and the Academic Productivity Support Program, PROA VID 2014, University of Chile. Thanks are due to Megan Geraghty for translating this paper into English.
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- Reading the intentions of be going to. On the subjectification of future markers
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