Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish
Edited by Marta Albelda Marco and María Estellés
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:3 (2018) v, 162 pp.
María Estellés
List of John Benjamins publications for which María Estellés plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2018 Introduction to the special issue: Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish, Albelda Marco, Marta and María Estellés (eds.), pp. 333–339 | Article
2018 What genres tell us about evidentials and vice versa: A study of al parecer in Spanish parliamentary debates Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish, Albelda Marco, Marta and María Estellés (eds.), pp. 402–428 | Article
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to delve into the influence of contextual discursive factors in determining the type of evidential chosen and the pragmatic functions developed by evidentials in Spanish parliamentary discourse; second, it shows how evidentials can also provide… read more
2018 Chapter 2. On the dynamicity of evidential scales: Pragmatic indirectness in evidentiality as a rhetorical strategy in academic and political discourse Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres, Figueras Bates, Carolina and Adrián Cabedo (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Chapter
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
2018 Chapter 5. Beyond the notion of periphery: An account of polyfunctional discourse markers within the Val.Es.Co. model of discourse segmentation Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 105–125 | Chapter
This paper offers an alternative analysis to the Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity and Peripheries Hypothesis or SIPH (Beeching, Degand, Detges, Traugott and Waltereit 2009; Traugott 2012; Beeching and Detges 2014; Higashizumi, Onodera and Sohn 2016). The SIPH focuses on the left and right… read more
2014 Absolute initial position Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador (ed.), pp. 121–155 | Article
This paper argues in favour of a discourse position called Absolute Initial Position (AIP). AIP is the place where conversationalists set up the basis for a new conversation, what implies choices regarding the number of participants, their role, the private/public character of the communicative… read more