Raquel Hidalgo Downing

List of John Benjamins publications for which Raquel Hidalgo Downing plays a role.

Title

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing

Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Hidalgo Downing, Raquel and María Jesús Nieto y Otero 2021 Political persuasion in a Spanish electoral debate: Intonation and affectivity in openings and closingsSpanish in Context 18:2, pp. 192–217 | Article
In this paper, we study the elements of political discourse where persuasion is present as communicative strategy. In particular, we focus on the analysis of intonation and affectivity in a two-candidate Spanish electoral debate (Hidalgo Downing and Nieto y Otero 2014; Ponsonnet 2014; Reber… read more
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Angela Downing 2014 Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and SpanishThe Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 261–284 | Article
This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish University students on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints, disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-play eliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker… read more
Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López 2007 Editorial introductionFunctional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. xvii–xxv | Miscellaneous
Hidalgo Downing, Raquel and Laura Hidalgo-Downing 2007 Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken SpanishFunctional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 327–348 | Article
This paper presents a discussion on the interactive and textual functions of pronominal marked topics in spoken Spanish. The study is a continuation of an empirical analysis based on Marcos Marín’s Corpus oral de referencia de español contemporáneo (Marcos Marín 1992), in which we have examined the… read more
Hidalgo Downing, Raquel 1994 The pragmatics of de-transitive voice in Spanish: From passive to inverse?Voice and Inversion, Givón, T. (ed.), pp. 169–186 | Article