The influence of the degree of formality on lexical variation in Spanish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21179716 |
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| Authors | Luis Escoriza Morera (0000-0001-6674-6639, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-220 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Spanish in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sic.12.2.02esc |
| OpenAlex | W2301737297 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Despite the enormous usefulness of variationist studies on a lexical plane, until the present day there has been little research in comparison with the attention paid by sociolinguistics to other levels of linguistic analysis such as phonetic –phonological analysis. This is due, we believe, to the theoretical and methodological problems that may occur at a lexical level. In this paper we present the results of research carried out on fifty lexical variants in Spanish. The results obtained show, on one hand, the possibility and necessity of designing tests which may help us to study the relationship between sociocultural factors and lexical elements and, on the other, the influence of the factor which we have called the degree of formality (based on the existence of different texts and communicative situations on a scale going from the most formal to the most spontaneous) in the choice of lexicon
Formality · Lexicon · Lexis · Linguistics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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