Address terms in Spanish native and non-native requests interactions
(2017) 15th International Pragmatics Conference — Location: Belfast (16.July.2017)
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- In this paper, we examine the ways in which native Speakers and French-speaking learners of Spanish address their interlocutor, from a pragmatic approach. We will focus on the politeness strategies used in the interactions and on the factors that determine the speakers’ choice of address terms towards their interlocutors. More precisely, we will analyse the use of second and third person singular forms in Spanish (tú and usted). The corpus has been compiled with video-recorded institutional naturalized interactions, i.e. between a student and a teaching assistant. This methodology is inspired by Tran (2006) and focuses on the production of spontaneous and authentic requests. The literature (Blum-Kulka & House 1989; Curcó 1998; Haverkate 2006; Bataller 2013; García Cantos 2012) on requests in both languages allows us to present some hypotheses, namely on the one hand, that Spanish is a more direct language than French and, on the other hand, that French-speaking learners of Spanish tend to transfer this indirectness in the L2. This means Spanish native speakers use more frequently the tú form and that the French-speaking learners tend to the formal form in the same situations. The research questions that will be tackled in this presentation include the following: (1) Which factors influence the way Spanish native and non-native speakers use address terms in naturalized interactions? (2) How do these speakers determine the use of tú and usted in those interactions with a teaching assistant? (3) How do the cultural differences influence the way Spanish native speakers and French-speaking learners of Spanish use the address terms in Spanish? The analysis of the corpus will then shed light on the interpretation of status/power and solidarity/distance as expressed through the use of address forms in request formulations.
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Marsily, A. (2017). Address terms in Spanish native and non-native requests interactions. 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/214278