Morphology and pragmatics

• Autores: Mónica Cantero
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology / coord. por Antonio Fábregas Alfaro, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Grant Amstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, 2021, ISBN 978-0-429-31819-1, págs. 416-429
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Morphopragmatics studies the relationships of pragmatic aspects concerning word formation. That is, it studies those connotations that relate, from the user’s perspective, to the use of morphological processes in obtaining specific extralinguistic preferences. According to Dressler and Merlini Barbaresi’s categorization, the study of morphopragmatics corresponds to two elements: morphopragmatics as one of the bases of natural morphology and morphopragmatics as the analysis of the pragmatic aspect of word formation. The study of morphopragmatics fits into the general framework described and understood as one of the bases of natural morphology, because it aims to provide an explanation for models of fundamental universals in morphological behavior, such as the morphological designs and categories that are central to morphology. The interest for Spanish morphopragmatics is the investigation of the correlative relationships that can be found between word-formation rules of nominal morphemes and the pragmatic information that is carried out by the morpheme used in such a process.