Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language
In previous studies of the mitigators that occur when a speaker wants to show disagreement with his or her interlocutor, morphosyntactic markers occupy the most relevant part. In oral communication, however, phonic markers play a central role. This research presents the analysis of these markers in a corpus of interviews with B1 level university exchange students (CEFR). The aim is to check for the presence of phonic attenuation markers when foreign students express a divergent opinion in Spanish from that expressed by the native speaker. The analysis leads to a categorization of these markers and attempts to provide empirical basis for a better understanding of the phonic markers in the academic interlanguage.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Hedging categories and strategies for disagreement in native Spanish: A contrastive approach
- 3.Categorization of mitigation hedges and strategies for disagreement in Spanish FL
- 4.Empirical data on non-native production
- 4.1The study
- 4.2Phonic MM used by non-native speakers of Spanish in interaction
- 1.Sounds of doubt
- 2.Laughter
- 3.Pauses
- 4.Sound lengthening
- 4.1Vocalic lengthening
- 4.2Consonant lengthening
- 5.Suspension
- 6.Weak pronunciation
- 7.Silences
- 5.Conclusion
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