Publications

Publication details [#53002]

García, Carmen. 2010. ‘Cuente conmigo’: The expression of sympathy by Peruvian Spanish speakers. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2) : 408–425.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | face maintenance | gender | power | social distance

Language as a subject

Spanish, Peruvian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study draws on Spencer-Oatey's rapport-management approach, to explore the (gendered) expression of sympathy by Peruvian Spanish speakers, in a situation displaying both power imbalance and social distance between participants.