A poco así dices? Biased interrogatives with ¿A poco (no)…? in Mexican Spanish

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ID21179807
AuthorsAsela Reig Alamillo (0000-0001-8559-4781, Universidad Autonoma Del Estado De Morelos, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume19
Issue1
Pages1-24
Publication date2022-04-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSpanish in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sic.19032.ala
OpenAlexW4214493012
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article offers a characterization of the biased polar interrogative with ¿a poco (no)? , frequent in Mexican Spanish. This characterization is based on the system proposed by Sudo (2013) and shows that Sudo’s two notions of epistemic bias and evidential bias are necessary and sufficient to characterize the conventional non-propositional meaning associated with the three kinds of a poco questions in Mexican Spanish: the a poco positive polarity question codes a negative epistemic bias and a [+positive] or [+negative] evidential bias; the a poco negative polarity question with inside negation codes a positive epistemic bias and a [+negative] evidential bias; and the a poco negative polarity question with outside negation codes a positive epistemic bias and a [−negative] evidential bias. Lastly, the article discusses to what extent these characterizations are also compatible with the interactional uses of the short questions ¿a poco? and ¿a poco no

Epistemology · Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Negation · Chemistry · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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