30.2631, Books: Is porque more like because or like omdat?: Santana Covarrubias

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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:05:04
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Is porque more like because or like omdat?: Santana Covarrubias

 


Title: Is porque more like because or like omdat? 
Subtitle: An exploration of causality and subjectivity in Spanish causal connectives 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/is-porque-more-like-because-or-like-omdat 


Author: Andrea Santana Covarrubias

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933233 Pages: 223 Price: Europe EURO 32


Abstract:

Connectedness is an inherent property of discourse: We generate a mental
representation of discourse by relating information units of text. These units
can be two or more discursive segments that are connected through coherence
relations (e.g., consequence-cause). This connection leads us to create a
cognitive representation of what is communicated. Causality and subjectivity
are two crucial notions that allow us to distinguish coherence relations.
Causality refers to the implicational meaning (P, antecedent à Q, consequent)
that is inferred between adjacent discourse segments and subjectivity is the
degree of speaker involvement in the construal of the relation. Consequently,
objective causal relations are those in which there is no speaker involvement,
and which refer to physical events/states in the world, and subjective causal
relations are those in which a speaker is involved, and which refer to speech
acts or reasoning of a thinking entity. Additionally, it has become apparent
that some causal connectives specialize in expressing subjective causal
relations while others specialize in expressing objective causal relations.
Various corpus-based studies have revealed this systematic variation in terms
of subjectivity in different languages. However, there are not detailed data
in Spanish from this cognitive perspective.

This dissertation aims to explore the relevance of causality and subjectivity
for the use of backward causal connectives in Spanish. Principally, it
investigates whether Spanish backward causal connectives show a systematic
variation in terms of subjectivity. To reach this goal, three specific studies
are carried out, which involve the use of different research methods:
Automatic analyses of corpora, manual text analyses of corpora and
experimental research. The combination of different methodological approaches
allows us to obtain new information about the semantic-pragmatic profile of
three common backward causal connectives in Spanish.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

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