Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan

• Autores: Gavin Bembridge, Andrew Peters
• Localización: Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018 / coord. por Gabriela Alboiu, Ruth King, 2022, ISBN 9789027210845, págs. 207-222
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Unlike the pragmatic literature, a pronoun’s ability to distinguish levels of formality has received relatively little dedicated attention in the syntactic literature. One definition of formality from the politeness literature defines it as social distance (Brown & Levinson 1987). We take the idea that formality can be viewed as distance literally and argue that second-person pronouns can incorporate Harbour’s (2016) projection, χ, that encodes spatial semantics. Variation in second-person pronouns results from differences in each language’s specific pronominal resources and the social meanings they are assigned.