Article published In: Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish
Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera
[Spanish in Context 17:2] 2020
► pp. 341–361
Narrative present in the Spanish of Santiago, Chile
Convergence and divergence with the Spanish variety from Mexico City
Published online: 1 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00062.gue
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00062.gue
Abstract
This investigation revises the use of the narrative present in the materials of the PRESEEA corpus. Based on 54
sociolinguistic interviews, the convergence and divergence of this phenomenon’s use is studied in the Spanish varieties from
Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City. We attempt to study variation according to the individuals, economic factors and the presence of
syntactic-discursive introductors before verbs, following the methodological guidelines of the Guía de estudios del
presente narrativo en los corpus PRESEEA (Guerrero, Silvana, and Silvana Arriagada. 2017. Guía de estudios del presente narrativo en los corpus PRESEEA, disponible en: [URL]).
In this way, we intend to answer two general questions: (a) why are there individuals who use the narrative present more than
others and (b) what functions serve such resource within the narratives in sociolinguistic interviews.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical framework
- 2.1Narrative present. Background and definition
- 2.2The function of the narrative present in oral stories and its study in Spanish
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Corpus
- 3.1.1Sample population
- 3.2Analytical procedure
- 3.1Corpus
- 4.Presentation, analysis and discussion of the results
- 4.1Study of the variation according to the individuals and the social factor
- 4.2Study of the variation according to syntactic-discursive introductors before verbs
- 4.3Functions fulfilled by the narrative present within the sociolinguistic interview
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
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