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Publication details [#44916]

Dunlap, Carolyn. 2006. Dialectal variation in mood choice in Spanish journalistic prose. Language Variation and Change 18 (1) : 35–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | journalese | mood | prose

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that in Spain and Mexico the use of the indicative or the subjunctive mood in journalistic prose is well established, whilst it varies in the other Spanish-speaking countries.