Desubjetivación del discurso escrito y gestión de referentes en las formas de la primera persona del plural en español

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Óscar Javier Rodríguez García
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Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4326-428X
Vol 29 (2023), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id8553
Submitted: 28-06-2022 Accepted: 25-09-2023 Published: 07-12-2023
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The aim of this paper is to show meaning differences between the expressed (nosotros/as) and omitted (ø) variants of first-person plural and their role in the creation of communicative styles, disposed along an objectivity/subjectivity continuum. First-person plural is a meaningful choice available to speakers in order to index their own presence in discourse, but some other persons could also be included in its reference to a greater or lesser extent depending on the meaning created in the interaction. From the analytic properties of salience and informativeness, it is feasible to explain meanings of each variant. With this purpose, a corpus of written texts from the field of school is analyzed. The results show that the inclusion or exclusion of other persons or the audience in their reference benefits each variant to acquire a unique meaning, determined by the degree of involvement of the speaker in the content of the discourse, which can lead to the creation of socio-communicative styles. Likewise, certain discursive-cognitive factors, such as the type of verb that co-appears with each of the variants studied, help to determine its versatility in communication

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Communicative style, informativeness, first-person, salience, morphosyntactic variation
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