Abstract

REPEDE, Doina. The locution «un poco» in the PRESEEA-Seville oral corpus: discursive functions and social distribution. Forma. func. [online]. 2023, vol.36, n.1, e7379.  Epub Nov 20, 2022. ISSN 0120-338X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/fyf.v36n1.97379.

In this research we propose to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the different uses and functions of the locution «un poco», as well as its social distribution in the Spanish language spoken in the city of Seville. In order to know the semantic and pragmatic functioning of this pluriverbal segment, we base our study on 72 semi-directed surveys conducted with Sevillian speakers, proportionally distributed into three levels of education (high, medium and low). The general results show that the structure «un poco» is widely used in the corpus as a discourse operator with four different values (mitigator, intensifier, approximator and reformulator). Additionally, this pragmatic use is more frequent in the high sociolect from the first generation, with a predominance of the mitigating function, which generally serves to protect and safeguard the speaker's face.

Keywords : discourse operator; «un poco»; gender; age; educational level; PRESEEA-Seville.

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