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- Title
Cartas de mujeres y recursos para la intensificación y la expresión afectiva en un corpus del siglo XVIII.
- Authors
Garrido Martín, Blanca
- Abstract
In this work, we intend to study the linguistic resources used for intensification and affective expression in an epistolary corpus from the 18th Century. The letters composing this corpus are characterized by being written by women and addressed to other female relatives, with whom they maintain a symmetrical relationship. Therefore, they have a private character, which makes them an ideal object of study to observe discursive features related to both communicative distance and immediacy. In addition, this article contributes to the study of a less addressed period in historical linguistics: the so-called first modern Spanish (1650-1825). This analysis suggests that intensifying and affective resources are abundant and varied in these texts, and that they constitute a pragmatic feature characteristic of these letters. The abundance of these expressions could be explained by the fact that, since affection and a close communication is assumed in this type of letters, there would be a need of a greater use of resources with a pragmatic load to emphasize their affective value and achieve the desired effect.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL linguistics; EIGHTEENTH century; WOMEN'S writings; AFFECT (Psychology); EPISTOLARY fiction; CORPORA
- Publication
Hipogrifo: revista de literatura y cultura del siglo de oro, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1027
- ISSN
2328-1308
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13035/H.2021.09.01.57