Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish

This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaning--in all its possible facets--as the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars whose work pursues the systematic integration of meaning and function in models of grammatical usage. After a foreword by the world-leading specialist Nikolas Coupland and a theoretical introduction by editors Miguel A. Aijón Oliva and María José Serrano, the seven empirical chapters focus on morphosyntactic phenomena in different varieties of Spanish, analyzing a wide range of discourse types and communicative domains, from sociolinguistic interviews to mass media and social network interactions. These studies offer a basis for the study of variation from similar viewpoints in other languages.

Author: María José Serrano, Miguel Á. Aijón Oliva

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Publication Date: May 31, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 3631900996

ISBN-13: 9783631900994