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Youngspeak in a Multilingual PerspectiveEdited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 184] 2009
► pp. 95–115
En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language
Annette Myre Jørgensen | University of Bergen
This paper discusses the use of the Spanish expression en plan as a pragmatic marker, more specifically as a hedge in Madrid boys’ and girls’ spontaneous conversation, when used as a politeness device to save both the speaker’s and the hearer’s face. This function is the most frequent one in the material studied in this paper, which emerges from Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid (COLAm) The differences between boys and girls uses are also analysed, as well as the distribution among social classes.
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, hedge, informal speech, politeness
Published online: 05 May 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.184.08jor
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.184.08jor
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