Víctor Fernández-Mallat
List of John Benjamins publications in which Víctor Fernández-Mallat is involved.
Book series
Title
Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction
Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna
Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.
Articles
2025 Chapter 3. Analyzing sociopragmatic properties of polysemic ustedeo address forms in Chilean Spanish via indexicality and clustering Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 45–68 | Chapter
This chapter examines 3,841 instances of second-person singular usage in Chilean Spanish, drawing on data from everyday conversations and institutional talk. Using a clustering procedure, the study identifies prototypical sociopragmatic properties that define the meaning of polysemic ustedeo,… read more
2025 Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond binaries in address research Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2024 An integrated look at forms of address in Chilean Spanish using a contextualized picture-translation task Spanish in Context 21:2, pp. 370–393 | Article
This study uses an innovative contextualized translation task method and a quantitative variationist approach to offer an integrated look at second person singular address forms in Chilean Spanish, a Latin American variety with a tripartite address system that includes tuteo, ustedeo, and voseo… read more

