Pekka Posio

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pekka Posio is involved.

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Uclés-Ramada, Gloria, Sven Kachel and Pekka Posio 2026 Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play dataPragmatics and Society 17:1, pp. 45–65 | Article
The present paper examines whether speakers’ gender affects how much they talk in conflictive discourse in Spanish — measured through number of words and number and mean length of interventions. We analyse role play data simulating two conflictive situations with varying levels of proximity… read more
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Previous research has found gendered variation in the use of direct reported speech (DRS) in Spanish and other languages, generally suggesting that women use it more often than men, which has been attributed to women’s allegedly higher intersubjectivity. The present study examines DRS in a… read more
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Is the use of the first-person singular becoming more prevalent in journalistic writing, like often claimed, and what is it used for? In order to tackle these questions, we analysed 11,775 articles published between 1960 and 2010 in the cultural sections of ABC and El País (Spain), Dagens… read more
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El presente estudio examina la forma y la función de los introductores cuotativos con el verbo decir, a saber, secuencias utilizadas para introducir diálogo construido en el discurso, en el español peninsular y argentino. Se identifican y se investigan varias diferencias morfosintácticas y… read more
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La presente investigación compara las estrategias de impersonalización individualizadoras en el español peninsular y en el portugués europeo. Dichas estructuras incluyen pronombres y formas verbales como la segunda persona del singular y el pronombre indefinido-impersonal uno. La comparación… read more
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La presente investigación compara el uso de dos construcciones impersonales con referencia humana (CIRH) –construcciones con se y la tercera persona del plural– en dos corpus orales de español peninsular, uno de conversaciones familiares y otro de medios de comunicación. El objetivo es averiguar… read more
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