Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish (PDF)

by Gerd Wotjak (Author)
 

This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaning—in all its possible facets—as the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars whose work pursues the systematic integration of meaning and function in models of grammatical usage. After a foreword by the world-leading specialist Nikolas Coupland and a theoretical introduction by editors Miguel A. Aijón Oliva and María José Serrano, the seven empirical chapters focus on morphosyntactic phenomena in different varieties of Spanish, analyzing a wide range of discourse types and communicative domains, from sociolinguistic interviews to mass media and social network interactions. These studies offer a basis for the study of variation from similar viewpoints in other languages.

Product Details

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; June 19, 2024
Language: English
ISBN: 9783631900994
ISBN: 9783631901106