Hesselbach R (2021)
Publication Language: Spanish
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2021
Publisher: Narr
Edited Volumes: Was bleibt von kommunikativer Nähe und Distanz? Mediale und konzeptionelle Aspekte sprachlicher Variation
Series: Script Oralia
City/Town: Tübingen
Book Volume: 144
Pages Range: 325-359
This article examines the relation between the degree of syntactic complexity and the communication situation, a relation about which various statements have been made over the years. In contrast to previous research positions (which in many cases are not based on solid data) a sufficiently large corpus comprising of 9,000 sentences of modern European Spanish was compiled for the present study. The qualitative as well as the quantitative analyses show that the oft-postulated gerneralizations “informal communication
situation = simple syntax” or “formal communication situation = complex syntax” do not go far enough and must be considered in a more differentiated way, since informal language registers can also be characterized
by complex syntactic constructions. Similarly, a predominance of simple sentence constructions can be observed in formal communication situations.
APA:
Hesselbach, R. (2021). Nuevas perspectivas empíricas sobre una cuestión antigua: la relación entre la complejidad sintáctica y la inmdediatez/distancia comunicativa. In Teresa Gruber, Klaus Grübl, Thomas Scharinger (Eds.), Was bleibt von kommunikativer Nähe und Distanz? Mediale und konzeptionelle Aspekte sprachlicher Variation. (pp. 325-359). Tübingen: Narr.
MLA:
Hesselbach, Robert. "Nuevas perspectivas empíricas sobre una cuestión antigua: la relación entre la complejidad sintáctica y la inmdediatez/distancia comunicativa." Was bleibt von kommunikativer Nähe und Distanz? Mediale und konzeptionelle Aspekte sprachlicher Variation. Ed. Teresa Gruber, Klaus Grübl, Thomas Scharinger, Tübingen: Narr, 2021. 325-359.
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