Sven Kachel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sven Kachel is involved.
Articles
2026 Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play data Pragmatics 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
2025 Sociolinguistic and functional variation in the use of direct reported speech in Spanish in the corpus CoLaGe-Valencia Spanish in Context 22:2, pp. 393–418 | Article
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