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Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish
Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera
[Spanish in Context 17:2] 2020
► pp. 341–361

Narrative present in the Spanish of Santiago, Chile

Convergence and divergence with the Spanish variety from Mexico City

| Universidad de Chile
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
This investigation revises the use of the narrative present in the materials of the PRESEEA corpus. Based on 54 sociolinguistic interviews, the convergence and divergence of this phenomenon’s use is studied in the Spanish varieties from Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City. We attempt to study variation according to the individuals, economic factors and the presence of syntactic-discursive introductors before verbs, following the methodological guidelines of the Guía de estudios del presente narrativo en los corpus PRESEEA (Guerrero and Arriagada, 2017). In this way, we intend to answer two general questions: (a) why are there individuals who use the narrative present more than others and (b) what functions serve such resource within the narratives in sociolinguistic interviews.
Keywords: sociolinguistic patterns, convergence, divergence, varieties of Spanish, narrative present
Published online: 01 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00062.gue
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