Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

Published by De Gruyter

Volume 8 Issue 1

Issue of Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

Contents
Journal Overview

Publicly Available September 15, 2020

Frontmatter

Page range: i-iii

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Research Articles

Open Access August 24, 2020

Storytelling: representaciones mediáticas de las memorias en Colombia

Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril

Page range: 1-40

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Abstract

Collective memories are multiple discursive practices, in which social representations about a common past are used to build and maintain cohesion and identity of groups socio-historically located at a socio-culturally determined moment and to project future in frameworks of rights and dignity. It is understood that the memories articulated to the Colombian armed conflict are diverse: different stories of violence, oppression and resistance of peoples, communities and groups are identified and made explicit. Thirty media narratives distributed in the ElTiempo.com Special “Thirty encounters with peace” (2017) comprise the universe of research. The sample is made up of seven narratives that propose the sense of testimony. The selected format is storytelling, which is built in the special edition of the newspaper as a communication proposal for the reconstruction of the social fabric, within the year after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the National Government and the FARC-EP (post-agreement). The research is nucleated on situations of rights violations linked to the conflict, and the proposals derived from these narratives, as regards the overcoming of the exercises of violence to which they refer. The analysis is assumed from the principles of Multimodal and Multimedia Critical Discourse Studies (MMCDS). The forms of representation in the discourses, their multimodal articulations and the multimedia implications in the production of meanings are articulated; the final aim is to derive sociopolitical consequences of the discursive proposal, constructed and socialized in the narratives of the special edition of the newspaper.

Open Access August 18, 2020

La evolución de la imagen de rol social familiar a través de la modulación pragmática de los actos de habla directivos en el teatro de los siglos XIX y XX. Estudio de la atenuación e intensificación en los roles de padre, madre e hijo

The evolution of the family role face through pragmatic modulation of directive speech acts in 19^th and 20^th century theater. A study of mitigation and intensification in the roles of father, mother and child

Marta Gancedo Ruiz

Page range: 41-75

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This paper describes the evolution of the family role face – specifically, the roles of father, mother and child – in a concrete period of the Spanish social history -from the end of 19th century to the 1960s. To achieve this goal, a corpus of theater plays is analyzed from a functional and pragmalinguistic perspective in a socio-historical context. The focus is on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the projection of role face in the expression of directive speech acts and their possible modulation through two pragmatic strategies: mitigation and intensification. Based on the results of the analysis, a sociopragmatic interpretation is carried out by identifying the connection between the choice of pragmalinguistic strategies and the need of the speakers’ autonomy face and affiliation face in different roles as family member in the given period. The results point to a progressive solidarity in father-child relationships during this period. On the one hand, that is based on the erosion of the authoritarian component of parental roles. On the other hand, it is anchored in the consolidation of proximity, closeness (‘confianza’) and affectivity. From a methodological point of view, the present study confirms the possibility of characterizing a sociopragmatic aspect (role face) on the basis of pragmalinguistic elements, i.e. the linguistic expression of directive speech acts, and its modulation through mitigation and intensification.

Open Access August 19, 2020

Conocimiento cultural como base para la construcción de identidad nacional. Un análisis del discurso de la prensa sobre el default de 2014 en Argentina

Cultural knowledge as a basis for national identity construction. An analysis of the press discourse on the default of 2014 in Argentina

Simone Mwangi

Page range: 77-103

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Economic and political crisis situations are interpreted differently in different societies and cultures. What is perceived as a major threat in one society can be experienced as an everyday occurrence in other societies. This shows that crises are not issues that exist independently of people, but that they are to a large extent the result of social interpretations. An example of how a community interprets events as a surmountable challenge, rather than a crisis, is Argentina’s public discourse on the 2014 default. Instead of a discourse that concentrates on economic, political and social problems, the event provoked a political discourse on national identity. The present paper uses the methods of descriptive discourse analysis to study this solution-driven way of handling crisis events. The investigation focuses on the cultural knowledge and discourse traditions used in Argentina to interpret the country’s situation in the summer of 2014. The study analyzes how these cultural and linguistic resources contribute to coping with the situation of default while strengthening national identity.

Open Access July 8, 2020

Directive Speech Acts in English and Spanish Filmspeak

Carlos de Pablos-Ortega

Page range: 105-125

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The main aim of the study is to ascertain contrastively, in English and Spanish, how directive speech acts are represented in film discourse. For the purpose of the investigation, the directive speech acts of 24 films, 12 in English and 12 in Spanish, were extracted and analysed. A classification taxonomy, inspired by previous research, was created in order to categorize the different types of directive speech acts and determine their level of (in)directness. The results show that indirectness is more widely represented in the English than in the Spanish film scripts, thus confirming the assertion that being indirect is a distinctive feature of English native speakers (Grundy, 2008). This research makes a valuable contribution to the exploration of speech acts in filmspeak and informs the existing local grammar descriptions of the linguistic patterns of directive speech acts.

Book Reviews

Open Access August 19, 2020

Métodos de Análisis del Discurso. Perspectivas argentinas

Sofía Ansaldo

Page range: 127-132

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Open Access August 19, 2020

La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática. Estudios teóricos, descriptivos y experimentales

Anabella L. Poggio

Page range: 133-138

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About this journal

This journal has ceased publication with De Gruyter

Objective

Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is a biannual publication that encourages the international dissemination of research results on theoretical and applied linguistics, focusing on social and cultural aspects of the Spanish language in all its forms and expressions. SOPRAG publishes high-quality papers that are useful to establish the interdependence between pragmatic, social, and cultural aspects of the Spanish language and its relations with other languages. SOPRAG welcomes manuscripts with thematic, theoretical, empirical, and terminological aspects in the area of Pragmatics, with an emphasis on sociocultural perspectives. SOPRAG accepts original papers preferably written in Spanish, but will consider manuscripts written in other Romance languages and English.

Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is published in two issues, 500-page volume per year, in print and electronic formats, with a peer, double-blind, review process. The electronic format of the journal is entirely open access, without authorship charges or readership embargoes. SOPRAG is internationally indexed in databases such as EBSCO, SCOPUS, and MLA, among many others.

Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is published with the financial support of Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden), Stockholm University, and EDICE Program (edice.org).

Topics

Applied linguistics
Theoretical linguistics
Spanish language
Pragmatics
Sociocultural linguistics

Volume 8 Issue 1

Issue of Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

Frontmatter

Storytelling: representaciones mediáticas de las memorias en Colombia

Abstract

La evolución de la imagen de rol social familiar a través de la modulación pragmática de los actos de habla directivos en el teatro de los siglos XIX y XX. Estudio de la atenuación e intensificación en los roles de padre, madre e hijo

The evolution of the family role face through pragmatic modulation of directive speech acts in 19th and 20th century theater. A study of mitigation and intensification in the roles of father, mother and child

Abstract

Conocimiento cultural como base para la construcción de identidad nacional. Un análisis del discurso de la prensa sobre el default de 2014 en Argentina

Cultural knowledge as a basis for national identity construction. An analysis of the press discourse on the default of 2014 in Argentina

Abstract

Directive Speech Acts in English and Spanish Filmspeak

Abstract

Métodos de Análisis del Discurso. Perspectivas argentinas

La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática. Estudios teóricos, descriptivos y experimentales

The evolution of the family role face through pragmatic modulation of directive speech acts in 19^th and 20^th century theater. A study of mitigation and intensification in the roles of father, mother and child