Miguel A. Aijón Oliva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Miguel A. Aijón Oliva is involved.
2025 Infinitives, discourse viewpoint, and referential interpretation of the initiator in Spanish digital news discourse Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the possible intended references of unidentified initiators — agents or experiencers — of Spanish infinitives in a corpus of digital news texts and readers’ comments to them. Four basic referential interpretations are discussed: external references, generic ones, the… read more
2025 Chapter 11. “No se puede ser más tonto”: Referential inference and address strategies in comments to Spanish digital news Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 242–262 | Chapter
The study aims to expand the analysis of address in Spanish as part of broader strategies to conceptualize the participants through grammatical choice. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of these strategies is based on a corpus of comments to digital news items. Together with the tú (T)… read more
2021 Chapter 10. Languages to buy and sell: Business names and linguistic diversity in a central Peninsular community Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.), pp. 269–292 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with linguistic diversity in business names across the Spanish town of Salamanca. Going from the urban center to the periphery, it examines three areas that are relatively differentiated according to average household income and immigrant population rate, among other… read more
2021 Las construcciones modales con deber: Elección morfosintáctica y creación de significado en el discurso de los medios de comunicación de Salamanca (España) Spanish in Context 18:3, pp. 335–361 | Article
El uso de las construcciones modales con deber (aquella en que va seguido de un infinitivo y aquella en que entre ambos se inserta la partícula de) resulta de interés para un enfoque cognitivo-funcional de la elección gramatical como creación de significados. En este trabajo se realiza un… read more
2013 On the meanings and functions of grammatical choice: The Spanish first-person plural in written-press discourse Pragmatics 23:4, pp. 573–603 | Article
Grammatical persons and their variable referential scopes play an important role in the configuration of discourse and in the achievement of communicative goals. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of the Spanish first-person plural from the viewpoint of morphosyntactic choice and… read more