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Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres
Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 290] 2018
► pp. 174–205

Chapter 8
The Spanish quotative según across written genres

| Universitat de València

This research aims to provide an insight into characterization of quotative markers from a specific and prototypical Spanish one, según. The analysis is corpus-based, specifically the data comes from four different genres (academic articles, essays, news and novels). Our study examines the linguistic features, the source of information, the combination with reporting verbs, and the frequency in relation to genres. Thus, it underlines that, in contrast to the counterpart in other languages, the evidential function of según is fulfilled by means of a prepositional phrase or a clause bringing a reporting verb. Also, it demonstrates the modification of the prototypical specific source (3d person) causes a reduction of reliability as a pragmatic extension, and it shows the evidential function is the most frequent across written genres and has increased significantly in news.

Keywords: evidentiality, evidential function, quotative markers, reported speech, reporting verbs, genres
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. General aim and hypotheses
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Distinguishing the quotative function
    • 4.1Meanings of según in relation to genres
    • 4.2The recognition of the quotative value in PP-según
    • 4.3The quotative clause (C-según)
  • 5.Analysis and description of the quotative function in según
    • 5.1Grammatical features
      • 5.1.1The structure and scope of PP-según and C-según
      • 5.1.2The position of PP-según and C-según
    • 5.2The source of information
      • 5.2.1The referents of the specific source in the third person
      • 5.2.2Uses of a specific source in the third person
      • 5.2.3Uses of an unspecific source in the third person (hearsay and oral tradition)
      • 5.2.4Uses of first and second person
      • 5.2.5 Summary
    • 5.3The evidential function in relation to reported discourse
      • 5.3.1 Reporting verbs as contextual clue of C-según
  • 6.Characterization of quotative markers
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 July 2018
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