The importance of context in the analysis of formulaic sequences (FS) and its use in SFL: sociocognitive and ethnopragmatic approach to the attitudes of native speakers

Abstract

In lexical competence, considered a central and transversal component of the linguistic system, the so-called phraseological units (PU) or formulaic sequences (FS) constitute a large part of it. In the teaching of second languages, mastering these units is essential, as they provide fluency, precision and greater expressiveness to speech. For the proper analysis, teaching and learning of these expressions, it is necessary to attend both to their sociocultural characteristics, since they are a reflection of the communicative ethos of the communities that use them, and to the pragmatic-discursive ones due to their situational dependence. For this, we consider it appropriate to study, from a sociocognitive and ethnopragmatic approach, the beliefs and attitudes of native speakers about the situational framework and the prototypical scenario in which they are used. Our study analyzes, from this approach, the beliefs and attitudes of native Spanish speakers about the farewell function in informal contexts to take advantage of this information in the field of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL).