During the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the Spanish Ministry of Health shared informative posts on platforms like Facebook, sparking heated debates. This paper utilizes a custom corpus of Facebook comments with evidential elements to explore the disagreement and confrontation in online… read more
This paper studies rhetorical questions containing cognitive verbs that function as reproaches in Spanish. Its two main goals are to determine the degree of specialization of rhetorical questions as reproaches and to examine the characterization of reproaching as a speech act, indicating the… read more
El presente trabajo investiga en qué medida la atención a la imagen social incide en la expresión de la atenuación. Para ello se realiza un estudio de los mecanismos atenuantes en cinco géneros discursivos seleccionados por su diferente tratamiento de la imagen: artículos de investigación, foros… read more
This paper aims to study the different types and pragmatic functions of the Spanish evidential forms found in four discursive genres, in order to observe if any restrictions apply. All the evidentials are studied in a corpus containing 100,000 words, evenly distributed over colloquial… read more
Based on examples from academic papers and parliamentary debates in Spain, the present paper studies a particular phenomenon within evidentiality, which is called ‘pragmatic indirectness’ in this work. This phenomenon involves examples in which evidentiality is expressed formally in a certain… read more
En este artículo se estudian las posibilidades evidenciales de las diversas combinaciones que subyacen a la construcción española se ve (que). Para ello se examinan los usos de esta construcción en tres corpus discursivos orales del español, en los que se analizan los contextos sintácticos, los… read more
By analysing the influence of situational factors, this paper aims to determine if all face-threatening acts indeed have an impolite effect. Two types of peninsular Spanish speech corpora (formal and informal) were examined, each with different situational features. The theoretical maxims applied… read more