A sociopragmatic study of the mitigating devices in the oral corpus PRESEEA-Seville
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to outline the sociolinguistic variation of the pragmatic attenuation in the Spanish language spoken in the city of Seville according to the sex and age criteria. For that, we carried out a quantitative analysis of the mitigating devices in 24 semiformal interviews of the high sociolect taken from the corpus PRESEEA-Sevilla (Repede 2019). These samples are proportionally distributed into two genders (women and men) and three age groups (20-34 years old; 35-55; 55 and onwards). To analyze the mitigation devices, we based our study on the typology of Albelda and others (2014). The results obtained show that 22 % of the corpus speech turns are attenuated using 1280 mitigating devices. It is also a linguistic phenomenon that operates differently between men and women, as well as between the three age groups.
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