"Comunicación, Sociedad y Lenguajes"

Grupo de investigación consolidado dedicado al estudio de la variación morfosintáctica y sociolingüística de las lenguas.

‘Objectivizing tú’ in sociosituational interaction: a new finding presented at 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (iClave6) held on Freiburg Institute for Advances Studies, Germany

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 …

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«Morphosyntactic variation in Spain» by María José Serrano: A chapter of The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Section II is devoted to morphosyntactic variation matching different theoretical aspects as well as a review of the most important contributions in this area both in Spain and America. One of the chapters is María José Serrano’s dealing with morphosyntactic variation in Spain.

From the nineties onwards, major developments began to take place in the variationist approach to syntactic variation in the Spanish language spoken in Spain, which developed the methodology of this field as did other studies carried out in the Americas. Unsurprisingly, early research in this area was undertaken …

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Seminario sobre Variación, Sociedad y Cognición: conclusiones y perspectivas

Durante los días 4, 5 y 6 de mayo de 2011 se ha celebrado en la Universidad de La Laguna el Seminario sobre Variación, Sociedad y Cognición. A diferencia de anteriores ediciones de este encuentro científico, en esta ocasión se ha enfatizado la vertiente cognitiva de la línea de investigación del grupo CoSoLen. En todas las jornadas del evento hemos contado con una notable asistencia de público, formado en su mayoría por estudiantes universitarios que manifiestan un gran interés por la incorporación de la perspectiva cognitiva al estudio de la variación morfosintáctica como creadora de estilos comunicativos, objetivo fundamental de este proyecto de investigación.

La primera jornada contó con la …

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