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Remarks on pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines| title | Remarks on pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines |
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| start_date | 2024/03/15 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle Paul Imbs |
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| summary | This paper addresses some Spanish farewell routines i.e. vale (‘ok’) and cuídate (‘take care’) that are connected with Latin vale (‘goodbye’) by form or meaning, hence they could be interpreted as pragmatic cycles (Ghezzi & Molinelli 2014; Hansen 2014, 2018; Pons & Llopis 2020). It aims to describe the pragmaticalisation process of each item, considering the essential features of pragmatic cycles.
The results show that the Latin vale/valete were adopted in Spanish as closing formulas especially in letters since the 15th century onwards but decreased dramatically over the 19th century, just when cuídate/cuidaos (‘take care of yourself’) started being used in dialogues and in letters, especially in farewells; this routine has been increasing in use since then. In addition, by the second half of the 20th century the Spanish vale was conventionalized as an agreement marker and later routinised as a (pre)closing mark in conversations.
Certainly, vale forms proceed from the same etymon; however, the semantic basis on which the pragmatic function was developed is different: Latin vale/valete derived from ‘be healthy’, whereas Spanish vale came from ‘be useful’ (>accepted), and besides the semantic extension ‘be healthy’ is rarely used in current Spanish. On the contrary, this meaning is somehow part of the semantic basis of cuídate (‘take care of yourself to be healthy’). These findings lead us to conclude that meaning is much more relevant than form in cycles and different degrees of semantic granularity should be distinguished. |
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| responsibles | Gobert |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/03/07 15:34 UTC |
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