The pragmatics of person reference
A comparative study of Catalan and Spanish parliamentary discourse
Barbara De Cock | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Neus Nogué Serrano | Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
In this article, we show through a contrastive analysis of person reference in Catalan and Spanish parliamentary discourse, that it is paramount to take into account not only syntactic but also pragmatic factors in order to adequately analyse the differences between two languages that have rather similar morphological paradigms. Thus, we will show that singular deictics are used more widely in Spanish parliamentary discourse, whereas plural forms are preferred in Catalan, which is possibly related to more general cultural features and to the political system as a whole. Furthermore, we will discuss differences in the use of the formal address forms. Finally, we will show that some differences in the use of vocatives may be due to the debating styles and history of the respective parliaments.
Keywords: person reference, deixis, parliamentary discourse, address forms, Catalan/Spanish
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Published online: 13 February 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.17.1.05dec
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