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- Title
Why and how tú in three plays by Calderón.
- Authors
Hoffman, Michol F.
- Abstract
Spanish second-person pronominal forms are well known to vary according to factors such as familiarity and social status. There are few quantitative investigations of social factors contributing to this variation in seventeenth-century Spanish. This article offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of second-person pronominal forms in three plays by the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright, Pedro calderón de la Barca, El médico de su honra, El pintor de su deshonra and A secreto agravio, secreta venganza. A qualitative analysis shows that terms of address vary according to socio-economic class, gender and relationships between characters. A quantitative multivariate analysis explores their effect on one pronominal form, tú. Results reveal that the importance of social status is mitigated by relationships within the same family and household.
- Subjects
PRONOMINALS (Grammar); SPANISH language -- Usage; SOCIAL status; EL Medico de su Honra (Play); EL pintor de su deshonra (Play); A secreto agravio, secreta venganza (Play); CALDERON de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2012, Vol 89, Issue 6, p571
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2012.45