A new finding of the ongoing research project has been presented by María José Serrano at iClave6 (6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), one of the most important forum on language variation in Europe held on Freiburg Institute on Advances Studies, Germany, on 29 june through july 1.
Sociolinguistic analyses of the Spanish second-person singular pronoun tú usually focus on its opposition to usted as a system of ‘familiar’ vs. ‘formal’ address forms. An important step forward would be taken if the inherent meaningful traits of the former were systematically explored by examining its usage across different texts and communicative interactions, watching it as a meaningful element in …