Ignacio M Palacios Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 170183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignacio M Palacios Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignacio M Palacios |
| FAMILY NAME | Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ I M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9202-9190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
That Bloody Museum’s So Crap!! Change and Decline in the Use of Bloody in British Teen Talk
This study examines the use, evolution, and pragmatic functions of bloody in British teen talk from the 1990s to 2016. Drawing on spoken data from four corpora representing different time periods, the findings reveal a marked decline in the use of bloody among teenagers, greater than that observed among older speakers during the same span. Rather than reflecting language innovation, this is interpreted as a generational change. Two main factors m…
The use of please in the expression of (im)politeness in the language of London teenagers and adults
This paper explores the expression of (im)politeness in the language of teenagers and adults, looking specifically at cases of so-called ‘pragmatic reversal’ (Mazzon, 2017; Fedriani, 2019), in which a politeness marker is used with a confrontational meaning to threaten face. We focus on the use of please , traditionally a courtesy marker, in contexts where it expresses either positive or negative (im)politeness (Culpeper, 2011; Leech, 2014; Aijme…
A syntactic and pragmatic study of nominal vocatives in the Twitter exchanges of rappers' fans
This study aims to examine nominal vocatives in Twitter through the analysis of 1500 posts extracted from the accounts of five well-known female and male rappers. From this total, a sample of 550 vocatives were analysed. Attention is paid to their frequency, class, position, type of clause and the polarity in which they occur, and the pragmatic functions they express. The factor of gender is also investigated. The analysis reveals that those post…
Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”: Placeholders in focus. The differences in use between teenagers and adults in spoken English
In this paper we focus on some of the so-called ‘placeholders’, words that are almost empty semantically, used with multiple functions in communication and whose meaning has to be inferred by the listener (Jucker et al . 2003: 1749). This category of placeholders includes terms such as thing , thingy , stuff , thingummybob , thingybob and whatsit . We firstly identify the most common words in this category in the language of British adults and te…
Taboo vocatives in the language of London teenagers
This study focusses on the use and functions of so-called taboo vocatives (e.g. dickhead, you bastard, bitch ) in the language of London teenagers, based on the analysis of over 500 examples extracted from COLT ( The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language ) and LEC ( London English Corpus ). Findings illustrate a wide variety of items in this category, and show that these cannot be regarded as mere insults, since they often serve to reinforce t…
Methods of data collection in English empirical linguistics research: Results of a recent survey
Lexical innovation in the Language of Teenagers: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Teenagers are well-known for introducing innovations into language, and indeed are generally regarded as prime agents of language change (Eckert 1988; Androutsopoulos/Georgakopoulou 2003; Stenström/Jørgensen 2009; Tagliamonte 2016). This article is concerned with innovative features of teen language, looking specifically at the creation and use of lexis, and focusses on the following issues: (a) The language of teenagers is rich in onomatopoeic a…
Help me move to that, blood”. A corpus-based study of the syntax and pragmatics of vocatives in the language of British teenagers
Introduction: Gaining insights into English as a contact language and its diffusion
The aims of this volume are twofold: to contribute to the study of English as a contact language and its various manifestations in World Englishes, and to explore the causes and effects of the influence and diffusion of English in several languages, with particular reference to Spanish.As Schreier and Hundt (2013: 1) have noted, the English language “has been contact derived from its very beginnings” and to this we can add that due to its rapid a…
Negative concord in the language of British adults and teenagers
Negative concord (NC) (e.g. I don’t know nobody in Havering ) has been the focus of a considerable number of diachronic as well as sociolinguistic studies, mainly in terms of its pervasiveness in the most common varieties of English. This paper contributes to the existing literature on the topic by examining NC in the language of British adults and teenagers. The findings, based on the analysis of data from three comparable adult and teenager cor…
Strategies used by English and Spanish teenagers to intensify language: A contrastive corpus-based study
The aim of the present paper is to investigate some of the strategies used by English and Spanish teenagers to intensify language. For this purpose, we have analysed data from three corpora of teenagers language. Our analysis shows the frequent use of really and so as intensifiers in English, yet a low frequency in Spanish of adverbs ending in - mente . Taboo words, such as bloody and fucking in English, and puto and jodido in Spanish, are quite …
That’s absolutely crap, totally rubbish: The use of the intensifiers absolutely and totally in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers
Intensifiers in English speech have received considerable attention in the literature, due to their flexibility, ongoing changes in the system, and the grammaticalisation processes that some of them undergo. This paper looks first at differences in the use of intensifiers in the speech of adults and teenagers, before moving on to consider in detail two maximisers, absolutely and totally . These were chosen because of their relative frequency with…
How are spoken skills assessed in proficiency tests of general English as a Foreign Language? A preliminary survey
This paper examines some of the best known proficiency tests in English, with particular focus on the oral component. Attention is paid to the following issues, among others: the weighting of oral elements in testing, the criteria used for the assessment of oral skills and the relation of these to the general guidelines in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the kinds of tasks and marking systems used for assessment. Our aim is…
Zero quoting in the speech of British and Spanish teenagers: A contrastive corpus-based study
Quotatives have been studied extensively in the language of teenagers in recent years as they present distinctive features of their own that make them different in part from those used by adults in mainstream English and Spanish. However, zero quoting has not received all the attention it certainly deserves as it has not been fully probed in terms of its discourse and pragmatic functions. This corpus-based study is focused on the strategies used …
He's absolutely massive. It's a super day. Madonna, she is a wicked singer. Youth language and intensification: A corpus-based study
In the last few years, the language of teenagers has been the focus of attention from different perspectives. One of the features that characterizes this type of language is the particular way adolescents intensify their language. This is precisely the object of study of this paper. For this purpose, we have analyzed data from different corpora: COLT (The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language), SCoSE (Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English), and…
I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers’ discourse
It ain't Nothing to do with my School.” Variation and Pragmatic Uses of ain ' t in the Language of British English Teenagers
The negative form ain't has been regarded as one of the most typical non-standard features of modern English. Although traditionally highly stigmatised, it is widely present in most geographical and social varieties, both in British and in American English. In fact, the linguistic changes that this contracted negative has undergone have been extensively researched; however, its variation and use have received much less attention. This paper is co…
Quite Frankly, I'm Not Quite Sure That it is Quite the Right Colour.” A Corpus-Based Study of the Syntax and Semantics of Quite in Present-Day English
Connecting linguistic description and language teaching: Native and learner use of existential there 1
This article emerges from the need to connect linguistic theory and language teaching to find concrete solutions to problems Spanish students confront when learning English. This study looks at existential there constructions taken from the following native and non‐native written English corpora: the International Corpus of Learner English and the Santiago University Learner of English Cor‐pus for the non‐native set, and the Louvain Corpus of Nat…
A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions
(2003). A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions. English Studies: Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 262-283
A study of the learning strategies used by secondary school and university students of English in Spain
The aim of this paper is to identify the type and range of the language learning strategies used by Spanish secondary and university learners in their study of English. For the collection of data, eighty students and twenty five teachers of both educational levels were interviewed. The data collected were statistically processed through the Chi-square test. The results obtained indicate that (a) the majority of the students were conscious of thei…
I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers’ discourse
A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions
(2003). A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions. English Studies: Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 262-283
Help me move to that, blood”. A corpus-based study of the syntax and pragmatics of vocatives in the language of British teenagers
Methods of data collection in English empirical linguistics research: Results of a recent survey
It ain't Nothing to do with my School.” Variation and Pragmatic Uses of ain ' t in the Language of British English Teenagers
The negative form ain't has been regarded as one of the most typical non-standard features of modern English. Although traditionally highly stigmatised, it is widely present in most geographical and social varieties, both in British and in American English. In fact, the linguistic changes that this contracted negative has undergone have been extensively researched; however, its variation and use have received much less attention. This paper is co…
Connecting linguistic description and language teaching: Native and learner use of existential there 1
This article emerges from the need to connect linguistic theory and language teaching to find concrete solutions to problems Spanish students confront when learning English. This study looks at existential there constructions taken from the following native and non‐native written English corpora: the International Corpus of Learner English and the Santiago University Learner of English Cor‐pus for the non‐native set, and the Louvain Corpus of Nat…
A syntactic and pragmatic study of nominal vocatives in the Twitter exchanges of rappers' fans
This study aims to examine nominal vocatives in Twitter through the analysis of 1500 posts extracted from the accounts of five well-known female and male rappers. From this total, a sample of 550 vocatives were analysed. Attention is paid to their frequency, class, position, type of clause and the polarity in which they occur, and the pragmatic functions they express. The factor of gender is also investigated. The analysis reveals that those post…
A study of the learning strategies used by secondary school and university students of English in Spain
The aim of this paper is to identify the type and range of the language learning strategies used by Spanish secondary and university learners in their study of English. For the collection of data, eighty students and twenty five teachers of both educational levels were interviewed. The data collected were statistically processed through the Chi-square test. The results obtained indicate that (a) the majority of the students were conscious of thei…
A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions
(2003). A Corpus-Based Approach to Non-Concord in Present Day English Existential There-Constructions. English Studies: Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 262-283
Connecting linguistic description and language teaching: Native and learner use of existential there 1
This article emerges from the need to connect linguistic theory and language teaching to find concrete solutions to problems Spanish students confront when learning English. This study looks at existential there constructions taken from the following native and non‐native written English corpora: the International Corpus of Learner English and the Santiago University Learner of English Cor‐pus for the non‐native set, and the Louvain Corpus of Nat…
Quite Frankly, I'm Not Quite Sure That it is Quite the Right Colour.” A Corpus-Based Study of the Syntax and Semantics of Quite in Present-Day English
It ain't Nothing to do with my School.” Variation and Pragmatic Uses of ain ' t in the Language of British English Teenagers
The negative form ain't has been regarded as one of the most typical non-standard features of modern English. Although traditionally highly stigmatised, it is widely present in most geographical and social varieties, both in British and in American English. In fact, the linguistic changes that this contracted negative has undergone have been extensively researched; however, its variation and use have received much less attention. This paper is co…
I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers’ discourse
He's absolutely massive. It's a super day. Madonna, she is a wicked singer. Youth language and intensification: A corpus-based study
In the last few years, the language of teenagers has been the focus of attention from different perspectives. One of the features that characterizes this type of language is the particular way adolescents intensify their language. This is precisely the object of study of this paper. For this purpose, we have analyzed data from different corpora: COLT (The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language), SCoSE (Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English), and…
How are spoken skills assessed in proficiency tests of general English as a Foreign Language? A preliminary survey
This paper examines some of the best known proficiency tests in English, with particular focus on the oral component. Attention is paid to the following issues, among others: the weighting of oral elements in testing, the criteria used for the assessment of oral skills and the relation of these to the general guidelines in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the kinds of tasks and marking systems used for assessment. Our aim is…
Zero quoting in the speech of British and Spanish teenagers: A contrastive corpus-based study
Quotatives have been studied extensively in the language of teenagers in recent years as they present distinctive features of their own that make them different in part from those used by adults in mainstream English and Spanish. However, zero quoting has not received all the attention it certainly deserves as it has not been fully probed in terms of its discourse and pragmatic functions. This corpus-based study is focused on the strategies used …
Strategies used by English and Spanish teenagers to intensify language: A contrastive corpus-based study
The aim of the present paper is to investigate some of the strategies used by English and Spanish teenagers to intensify language. For this purpose, we have analysed data from three corpora of teenagers language. Our analysis shows the frequent use of really and so as intensifiers in English, yet a low frequency in Spanish of adverbs ending in - mente . Taboo words, such as bloody and fucking in English, and puto and jodido in Spanish, are quite …
That’s absolutely crap, totally rubbish: The use of the intensifiers absolutely and totally in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers
Intensifiers in English speech have received considerable attention in the literature, due to their flexibility, ongoing changes in the system, and the grammaticalisation processes that some of them undergo. This paper looks first at differences in the use of intensifiers in the speech of adults and teenagers, before moving on to consider in detail two maximisers, absolutely and totally . These were chosen because of their relative frequency with…
Introduction: Gaining insights into English as a contact language and its diffusion
The aims of this volume are twofold: to contribute to the study of English as a contact language and its various manifestations in World Englishes, and to explore the causes and effects of the influence and diffusion of English in several languages, with particular reference to Spanish.As Schreier and Hundt (2013: 1) have noted, the English language “has been contact derived from its very beginnings” and to this we can add that due to its rapid a…
Negative concord in the language of British adults and teenagers
Negative concord (NC) (e.g. I don’t know nobody in Havering ) has been the focus of a considerable number of diachronic as well as sociolinguistic studies, mainly in terms of its pervasiveness in the most common varieties of English. This paper contributes to the existing literature on the topic by examining NC in the language of British adults and teenagers. The findings, based on the analysis of data from three comparable adult and teenager cor…
Lexical innovation in the Language of Teenagers: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Teenagers are well-known for introducing innovations into language, and indeed are generally regarded as prime agents of language change (Eckert 1988; Androutsopoulos/Georgakopoulou 2003; Stenström/Jørgensen 2009; Tagliamonte 2016). This article is concerned with innovative features of teen language, looking specifically at the creation and use of lexis, and focusses on the following issues: (a) The language of teenagers is rich in onomatopoeic a…
Help me move to that, blood”. A corpus-based study of the syntax and pragmatics of vocatives in the language of British teenagers
Methods of data collection in English empirical linguistics research: Results of a recent survey
Taboo vocatives in the language of London teenagers
This study focusses on the use and functions of so-called taboo vocatives (e.g. dickhead, you bastard, bitch ) in the language of London teenagers, based on the analysis of over 500 examples extracted from COLT ( The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language ) and LEC ( London English Corpus ). Findings illustrate a wide variety of items in this category, and show that these cannot be regarded as mere insults, since they often serve to reinforce t…
Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”: Placeholders in focus. The differences in use between teenagers and adults in spoken English
In this paper we focus on some of the so-called ‘placeholders’, words that are almost empty semantically, used with multiple functions in communication and whose meaning has to be inferred by the listener (Jucker et al . 2003: 1749). This category of placeholders includes terms such as thing , thingy , stuff , thingummybob , thingybob and whatsit . We firstly identify the most common words in this category in the language of British adults and te…
A syntactic and pragmatic study of nominal vocatives in the Twitter exchanges of rappers' fans
This study aims to examine nominal vocatives in Twitter through the analysis of 1500 posts extracted from the accounts of five well-known female and male rappers. From this total, a sample of 550 vocatives were analysed. Attention is paid to their frequency, class, position, type of clause and the polarity in which they occur, and the pragmatic functions they express. The factor of gender is also investigated. The analysis reveals that those post…
The use of please in the expression of (im)politeness in the language of London teenagers and adults
This paper explores the expression of (im)politeness in the language of teenagers and adults, looking specifically at cases of so-called ‘pragmatic reversal’ (Mazzon, 2017; Fedriani, 2019), in which a politeness marker is used with a confrontational meaning to threaten face. We focus on the use of please , traditionally a courtesy marker, in contexts where it expresses either positive or negative (im)politeness (Culpeper, 2011; Leech, 2014; Aijme…
That Bloody Museum’s So Crap!! Change and Decline in the Use of Bloody in British Teen Talk
This study examines the use, evolution, and pragmatic functions of bloody in British teen talk from the 1990s to 2016. Drawing on spoken data from four corpora representing different time periods, the findings reveal a marked decline in the use of bloody among teenagers, greater than that observed among older speakers during the same span. Rather than reflecting language innovation, this is interpreted as a generational change. Two main factors m…
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