María José Serrano
List of John Benjamins publications in which María José Serrano is involved.
2025 Building spaces for the Spanish second-person singular tú viewpoint Revue Romane 60:2, pp. 153–181 | Article
The second-person singular tú in Spanish usually extends its reference to the speaker as well as to the audience, turning into a communicative resource that invests the content with an objective meaning. This investigation analyzes the linguistic elements that help to construct the second-person… read more
2024 The variation of the indefinite pronoun uno as a desubjectivizing resource by sex/gender Language, Culture and Society 6:2, pp. 223–249 | Article
In Spanish, uno (‘one’) is third person pronoun whose referent is categorically a first-person singular referent of human nature: “Uno quiere salir adelante” (‘One wants to go onwards’). It represents the person speaking, but a second person or a nonspecified group of referents may also be… read more
2023 Variation and society: The periphrases tener / haber que + infinitive by sex/gender of participants in Spanish Pragmatics and Society 14:4, pp. 568–592 | Article
In Spanish, tener que and haber que + infinitive are modal periphrases that convey deontic meanings. The present investigation analyzes these periphrases as variants used in diverse communicative settings by different kinds of participants, acting as either speakers/writers or addressees. Tener… read more
2019 The variable functions of addressing hearer-participants with Spanish second person object forms in media discourse It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 281–304 | Chapter
The Spanish second person singular and plural objects te/a ti (‘you/to you’ 2sg), le/a usted (‘you/to you’ 2sg), and les/a ustedes (‘you/to you’ 2pl) can be used to address hearer-participants (hearers and addressees) in audiovisual mass media, radio and television. Hearers and addressees are two… read more
2019 Los objetos verbales de persona como variantes de tratamiento interpersonal canario en la red social Facebook Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:1, pp. 329–355 | Article
Las formas de objeto de segunda persona del plural les, los, las /a ustedes, os/a ustedes son recursos que posee la lengua española para indexar a los referentes plurales. Sin embargo, en la variedad del español de Canarias, solo es posible la primera. En general, ambos paradigmas tienden a ser… read more
2018 Análisis cognitivo-discursivo y situacional de las formas de tratamiento en función de sujeto y de objeto en español Spanish in Context 15:1, pp. 103–126 | Article
Las formas de sujeto y de objeto de segunda persona singular tú/usted y te/a ti; le, lo, la /a usted son recursos que posee la lengua española para indexar a los participantes en las distintas situaciones discursivas. Pocos estudios han profundizado en los valores cognitivos que subyacen a esta… read more
2017 Going beyond address forms: Variation and style in the use of the second-person pronouns tú and usted Pragmatics 27:1, pp. 87–114 | Article
The cognitive properties of morphosyntactic choices are at the base of any usage, patterns and tendencies they could possibly reveal; thus, by means of the cognitive properties of salience and informativeness, variation in second-person tú and usted must be considered as inherently meaningful,… read more
2013 Variación sociosituacional de la colocación del sujeto pronominal en textos conversacionales Spanish in Context 10:2, pp. 261–283 | Article
La colocación del sujeto con respecto al verbo constituye un caso de variación notablemente estudiado en la gramática española. En este trabajo nos proponemos desarrollar su análisis incorporando las propiedades cognitivas que caracterizan a esa variación como la prominencia cognitiva y la… read more
2012 El sujeto pronominal usted/ustedes y su posición. Variación y creación de estilos comunicativos Spanish in Context 9:1, pp. 109–131 | Article
La variación en la expresión preverbal o posverbal del sujeto pronominal usted/ustedes obedece a una gradación de prominencia cognitiva e informatividad que genera significados en el discurso. Estos significados, puestos de manifiesto en la interacción comunicativa a través de diversos contextos… read more