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Project

Forms of address in Chilean Spanish: diastratic and diatopic variation and pregmatic use
Code
01D27711
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
Keywords
politeness strategies regional variation forms of address Chilean Spanish sociolinguistics Linguistics
 
Project description
 

The project studies the address system in Chilean Spanish, characteristic of its threefoldness (tú, usted, vos + own verb conjugations), the increasing use of the hybrid 'tú + vos-verb conjugation' and the high frequency of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical and contextually-specific influences on the phenomenon based on an enquiry and audiorecordings in the speech community.