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Título del libro: Change Of Paradigms - New Paradoxes: Recontextualizing Language And Linguistics
Título del capítulo: Bueno, a window opener

Autores UNAM:
RICARDO LEON MALDONADO SOTO; ROSA PATRICIA PALACIOS SANCHEZ;
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Año de publicación:
2015
Resumen:

Considerable amount of work on Spanish has been developed to analyze bueno beyond traditional dictionary's description-for which it is an interjection of approval or surprise DRAE-and to see it as a dialogic marker (Bauhr 1994; Cortes Rodriguez 1991; Fuentes Rodriguez 1993; Gregori Signes1996; Martin Zorraquino 1991; Travis 2005; Hummel 2012). Against analyses that reduce bueno to an anaphoric marker o f approval, this paper shows that the marker dominantly accomplishes corrective functions with a bidirectional configuration as an anaphoric and a cataphoric marker (Hummel 2012). Moreover the paper accounts for a s et o f further extensions where both approval and anaphoric uses are drastically reduced leaving the space for cataphoric functions to take over. It is proposed that bueno functions as a "window opener", a marker that instead of making reference to previous discourse opens new mental spaces in discourse (Fauconnier 1994) in order to introduce new topics, new turns, new argument lines or new spheres in discourse. These readings are obtained as extreme cases of attenuation and subjectivization (Langacker 1991, 1999) where the speaker validates a new discourse phase without depending on the content of previous discourse. Based on a data from oral Mexican Spanish it is shown that the three dominant uses are not of approval of previous discourse but of meanings correcting a previous assertion to increase assertiveness, expansions and elaborations of speaker's current discourse and "window openers" into new situations. The data suggests that bueno is undergoing a reanalysis where a semantic bleaching process not only loses the root meaning of "goodness" but also stops referring to the content of some anaphoric antecedent to instead move ahead in discourse. © 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.


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