Diverging grammaticalization patterns across Spanish varieties : the case of perdón in Mexican and peninsular Spanish
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- Marlies Jansegers (UGent) , Chantal Melis and Jennie Elenor Arrington Báez
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- This study investigates the contemporary grammaticalized uses of perdón (‘sorry’) in two varieties of Spanish, namely Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. Methodologically, the investigation is based on a taxonomy of offenses, organized around the concept of ‘face’ and based on spoken data of Spanish from Mexico and Spain. This taxonomy turns out to be a fruitful methodological tool for the analysis of apologetic markers: it does not only offer usage-based evidence for previous theorizing concerning the grammaticalization process of apologetic markers, but also leads to a refinement of these previous results from a contrastive point of view. Evidence from both corpora suggests a more advanced stage in the grammaticalization process of perdón in Mexican Spanish, where it can be used not only as a self-face-saving device geared towards the positive face of the speaker, but also in turn-taking contexts oriented towards the negative face of the interlocutor. Peninsular Spanish, on the other hand, resorts to a more varied gamut of apologetic markers in these contexts.
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- grammaticalization, apologetic markers, politeness, face, offenses, Mexican and Peninsular Spanish, perdon, STRATEGIES, POLITENESS, APOLOGIES
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- Jansegers, Marlies, et al. “Diverging Grammaticalization Patterns across Spanish Varieties : The Case of Perdón in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.” LANGUAGES, edited by Renata Enghels et al., vol. 9, no. 1, 2024, doi:10.3390/languages9010013.
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- Jansegers, M., Melis, C., & Arrington Báez, J. E. (2024). Diverging grammaticalization patterns across Spanish varieties : the case of perdón in Mexican and peninsular Spanish. LANGUAGES, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010013
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- Jansegers, Marlies, Chantal Melis, and Jennie Elenor Arrington Báez. 2024. “Diverging Grammaticalization Patterns across Spanish Varieties : The Case of Perdón in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.” Edited by Renata Enghels, Marlies Jansegers, and Tom Bossuyt. LANGUAGES 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010013.
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- Jansegers, Marlies, Chantal Melis, and Jennie Elenor Arrington Báez. 2024. “Diverging Grammaticalization Patterns across Spanish Varieties : The Case of Perdón in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.” Ed by. Renata Enghels, Marlies Jansegers, and Tom Bossuyt. LANGUAGES 9 (1). doi:10.3390/languages9010013.
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- 1.Jansegers M, Melis C, Arrington Báez JE. Diverging grammaticalization patterns across Spanish varieties : the case of perdón in Mexican and peninsular Spanish. Enghels R, Jansegers M, Bossuyt T, editors. LANGUAGES. 2024;9(1).
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- [1]M. Jansegers, C. Melis, and J. E. Arrington Báez, “Diverging grammaticalization patterns across Spanish varieties : the case of perdón in Mexican and peninsular Spanish,” LANGUAGES, vol. 9, no. 1, 2024.
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