The discursive effects of Spanish uno and se. A case study of the phenomena of speaker inclusion and female-only reference
(2014) Subjectivity and epistemicity. Corpus, discourse and literary approaches to stance — 107-120, published
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- In this article, I will compare the discursive functioning of Spanish constructions with uno and se, which both allow for keeping the agent/experiencer out of focus and for expressing genericity. I will first briefly introduce the main features of both constructions, before presenting their pragmatic effects, as well as their (inter)subjective effects, in more detail. This paper will focus especially on situations where the genericity is restricted, either because the speaker is not included or because only women are represented. Thus, the tension between genericity and specificity will become clear, and the similarities and differences between both constructions will be examined, both from a more formal point of view and from the perspective of the expression of (inter)subjectivity
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De Cock, B. (2014). The discursive effects of Spanish uno and se. A case study of the phenomena of speaker inclusion and female-only reference. In Dylan Glynn, Mette Sjölin (ed.), Subjectivity and epistemicity. Corpus, discourse and literary approaches to stance (pp. 107-120). Lund University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236376