Patricia Sánchez Carrasco
List of John Benjamins publications in which Patricia Sánchez Carrasco is involved.
Articles
2025 Uhm… The use of hesitation markers on the social media platform X in Dutch and Spanish Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 252–268 | Article
The status of hesitation markers or filled pauses (e.g., eh, uhm) is debated, with some claiming that these forms merely signal disfluencies or delays in conversation, while others argue that they are lexical items. Although more common in oral communication, hesitation markers have been… read more
2023 Beyond politeness: A corpus study of Spanish por favor Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 178–193 | Article
Here we investigate the use of the politeness marker por favor ‘please’ in a corpus of contemporary Spanish dialogues from film scripts and literary dialogues. We argue that por favor is in fact only occasionally used as an expression of politeness. Apart from these uses, we distinguish between… read more

