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Address in Portuguese and Spanish : Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction /

The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history--e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel coloniz...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Calderon, Campos (Contributor, contribtor.), Christiane Maria, Nunes de Souza (Contributor, contribtor.), Célia Regina dos, Santos Lopes (Contributor, contribtor.), Célia dos, Santos Lopes (Contributor, contribtor.), Gunther, Hammermüller (Contributor, contribtor.), Hummel, Martin (Editor), Isabel, Molina Martos (Contributor, contribtor.), Izete, Lehmkuhl Coelho (Contributor, contribtor.), Leonardo, Lennertz Marcotulio (Contributor, contribtor.), Maria Teresa, Garcia-Godoy (Contributor, contribtor.), Martin, Hummel (Contributor, contribtor.), María Eugenia, Vázquez Laslop (Contributor, contribtor.), María Marta, García Negroni (Contributor, contribtor.), Miguel, Garcia-Godoy (Contributor, contribtor.), Miguel, Gutiérrez Maté (Contributor, contribtor.), Márcia, Cristina de Brito Rumeu (Contributor, contribtor.), Philipp, Dankel (Contributor, contribtor.), Silvia, Ramírez Gelbes (Contributor, contribtor.), Thiago, Laurentino de Oliveira (Contributor, contribtor.), Vanessa, Martins do Monte (Contributor, contribtor.), Virginia, Bertolotti (Contributor, contribtor.), Víctor Lara, Bermejo (Contributor, contribtor.), dos Santos Lopes, Célia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Series:Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Subjects:
Portuguese language > Address, Forms of.
Spanish language > Address, Forms of.
Forms of address.
Portuguese.
Spanish.
pragmatics.
Portugais (Langue) > Titres de politesse.
Espagnol (Langue) > Titres de politesse.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics.
Portuguese language > Address, Forms of
Spanish language > Address, Forms of
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Diachronic research on address in Portuguese and Spanish
  • Forms of address in the south-western Sprachbund of the Iberian Peninsula
  • Forms of address from the Ibero-Romance perspective
  • Variation and change in the second person singular pronouns tu and você in Santa Catarina (Brazil)
  • Forms of address in São Paulo
  • Variation in the paradigms of tu and você
  • Retracing the historical evolution of the Portuguese address pronoun você using synchronic variationist data
  • The loss of vosotros in American Spanish
  • Vuestra atención, por favor 'your attention, please'. Some remarks on the usage and history of plural vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish (Peru)
  • Prescriptive and descriptive norms in second person singular forms of address in Argentinean Spanish
  • Addressing in two presidential election debates in Mexico (1994 and 2012)
  • The European roots of the present-day Americanism su merced
  • Linguistic change and social transformation