Project

Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative: between production, cognition and personality.

Code
01CD4923
Duration
01 November 2023 → 28 February 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Spanish language
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Philology
Keywords
vocative corpus linguistics present-day Spanish cognitive linguistics psycholinguistics sociolinguistics
 
Project description
This project aims to provide a multivariate analysis of the nominal vocative in present-day Spanish (e.g. ¡Hola, chica! ‘Hey, girl!’) from a cognitive-functional, usage-based perspective. The formal and functional productivity of the Spanish nominal vocative expressions will be scrutinized in light of (socio)linguistic and situational variables, as well as personality traits of the speakers.