Sociopragmatic variation in attention focus: 'mira', 'fíjate', and 'oye' in San Juan and Mexico City
Discourse markers of attention focus (enfocadores de alteridad in Spanish) frequently serve the purposes of drawing the hearer’s attention to what the speaker is saying, either to establish or maintain contact between the two interlocutors. The current study aims to determine whether the choice of...
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Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2021-05-01
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Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/5721 |