Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.001

Lucía Zanfardini , Bob de Jonge

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Abstract

The distribution of vos ‘you’ and uno ‘one’ in generic messages is studied in a corpus of female speakers of Spanish (Argentina).The question was how it is possible that the form vos, so clearly defined as the pronoun to refer to the interlocutor, could have an impersonal reading, alongside the indefinite pronoun uno, which seems much more fit to do the job. The alternation between the generic use of the forms vos and uno cannot be, in our view, the result of chance nor a merely stylistic tool, but corresponds to the communicative strategies that speakers utilize in each and every context. This paper studies the different factors that play a role in the selection of each of the pronouns.

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通用选项:在巴塔哥尼亚西班牙语(阿根廷)中可变地使用vos和uno

在一个讲西班牙语的女性语料库中研究了一般信息中vos“you”和uno“one”的分布(阿根廷)。问题是，如此明确地定义为指代对话者的代词的形式vos，怎么可能有一种非个人化的解读，而不定代词uno似乎更适合做这件事。在我们看来，vos和uno的一般用法之间的交替不可能是偶然的结果，也不可能仅仅是一种风格工具，而是与说话者在每种语境中使用的交际策略相对应。本文研究了影响每个代词选择的不同因素。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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