Publications

Publication details [#32007]

Stewart, Miranda. 2003. 'Pragmatic weight' and face: pronominal presence and the case of the Spanish second person singular subject pronoun tú. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2) : 191–206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | politeness | pragmatics | pronoun

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study places the use of the Spanish second person subject pronoun tú within the framework of interactional pragmatics and examines the effects of extra-linguistic factors on speakers' linguistic choices within a broad framework of Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory.