TY  - BOOK
AU  - María José Serrano
AU  - Miguel Á. Aijón Oliva
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631901090
TI  - Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish
DO  - 10.3726/b20762
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1329066
N2  - This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaning—in all its possible facets—as the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars whose work pursues the systematic integration of meaning and function in models of grammatical usage. After a foreword by the world-leading specialist Nikolas Coupland and a theoretical introduction by editors Miguel A. Aijón Oliva and María José Serrano, the seven empirical chapters focus on morphosyntactic phenomena in different varieties of Spanish, analyzing a wide range of discourse types and communicative domains, from sociolinguistic interviews to mass media and social network interactions. These studies offer a basis for the study of variation from similar viewpoints in other languages.
KW  - defocusing constructions, desubjectivization, focalization, function, impersonals, infinitive, media discourse
LA  - English
ER  -