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Publication details [#54800]

Blas Arroyo, José Luis. 2011. From politeness to discourse marking: The process of pragmaticalization of muy bien in vernacular Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (3) : 855–874.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This conversation analytic study argues that the multifunctionality of the Spanish adverbial phrase 'muy bien', results from a process of pragmaticalization, that is to say, a semantic blurring away from the referential meaning towards more procedural and discursive ones in varying conversational contexts. Furthermore, the study deals with the issue of formal and semantic convergence with oral Catalan (in its Valencian variety).