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Vol. 59:2 (2024) ► pp.280–301

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El marcador pragmático es que en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño

Productividad lingüística y descripción formal-funcional

 | Ghent University
ORCiD logo with link | Ghent University

Article language: Spanish

Published online: 24 March 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.20025.van
Abstract
This article investigates the construction with es que (‘it is that’) in contemporary Madrilenian Spanish youth language. Apart from the analysis by Fuentes Rodríguez (Fuentes Rodríguez, C. (1997): Los conectores en la lengua oral: Es que como introductor de enunciado. Verba, 241, pp. 237–263.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; (2015): Pragmagramática de es que: El operador de intensificación. Estudios filológicos, 551, pp. 53–76. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), this fixed, almost grammaticalized, pattern has not received sufficient attention of scholars. The present study wants to uncover the full range of functions that the construction with es que can assume, by zooming in on its productive use in teenage talk. Based on a representative sample collected from the CORMA corpus (Corpus Oral de Madrid), the analysis argues that it constitutes a pragmatic marker, i.e. a multifunctional element with a procedural meaning whose concrete interpretation is negotiated by the context. It is shown that the linguistic item shares functions not only with other pragmatic markers, but also with the constructions of insubordination and dislocation.
Article outline
  • Introducción
  • 1.Es que y sus funciones discursivas
  • 2.Corpus y metodología
  • 3.Resultados
    • 3.1Panorama general
    • 3.2La macrofunción argumentativa
    • 3.3La macrofunción metadiscursiva
    • 3.4La macrofunción expresiva
    • 3.5Discusión
  • 4.Conclusión
  • Notas
  • Bibliografía
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