Valores discursivos del vocativo en la prensa espectadora española del siglo XVIII
ISSN: 1887-3553
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 11
Pages: 16-36
Type: Article
More publications in: Res Diachronicae
Abstract
This paper analyses the role played by vocative expressions in the discourse of Spanish Spectator type press in the 18th century, essay newspapers dealing with moral and social criticism. The usages registered in our corpus can be related to the set of linguistic items participating in interaction, the transmission of (im)politeness, argumentation, the expression of modality and discourse construction. It shows a different performance in every textual form included in these newspapers (essay, dialogue and letters), where the use of vocative is part of a communicative strategy typical of this genre.