Pragmemes in the sociolinguistic interview: a case study on expanded polar answers
(2016) Pragmemes and Theories of Language use — ISBN: [978-3-319-43490-2], 351-374, published
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- This chapter explores the applicability of the pragmeme framework (Mey 2001, Capone 2005, Allan 2010) to sociolinguistic interviews. It presents an analysis in terms of frequency of speakers’ answers to the same sequence of questions –specifically, polar questions– in a set of interviews in Spanish. The results show that, rather than a single polar element, most of the interviewees give an expanded polar answer, although the place of this expansion and the very presence or absence of an initial polar element may vary. The paper argues that the “expanded polar answer” is an interactional pragmeme with a dyadic nature. Due to the conventional common scene (Rancière 1995, in Mey 2001) of the interview itself, the pragmeme is made relevant by the requirements of the situation, where the interviewee is supposed to provide information. It pre-sents four allopracts more or less central in the category according to the presence of certain formal elements.
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Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2016). Pragmemes in the sociolinguistic interview: a case study on expanded polar answers. In Allan, K., Capone, A., Kecskes, I. and J.L. Mey (ed.), Pragmemes and Theories of Language use (pp. 351-374). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9