TY - JOUR
T1 - A multimodal cognitive approach to aid the conceptualization of Spanish utterances with 'se'
AU - Lopez-Ozieblo, Renia
N1 - Funding Information:
Research funding: This study was partly funded by the Early Career Research Fund of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, University of Huddersfield, and the Early Career Scheme of the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The PI of the project is a member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) of the Department of English of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the mission of which is to pursue applied research and consultancy to deepen the understanding of professional communication and to better serve the communicative needs of professional communities. The PI is also member of the Research Centre for Language Teaching and Learning (RCLTL) of the Department of English Hong of the Kong Polytechnic University. This project is intended to fulfil in part their missions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Renia Lopez-Ozieblo, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2020.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Most native speakers of Spanish are intuitively able to construct correct structures with the marker 'se'. On the other hand, non-native speakers, even those at advanced proficiency levels, have difficulties producing most constructions with 'se'. This is hardly surprising as the marker 'se', one of the most common words in Spanish, can convey highly pragmatic nuances with a variety of functions that are still much debated among linguists. This study analyses some of the most used functions of the marker in the oral production of 18 Peninsular Spanish speakers from a multimodal Cognitive Grammar approach, identifying how gestures might be employed by speakers to create or clarify meaning. Our results confirm that gestures are used differently depending on the function of the marker. Middle voices where 'se' marks high levels of subject involvement and/or energy co-occur with related gestures, while middle voices or impersonal structures, where the involvement and/or energy is low, co-occur more often with unrelated gestures, if any.
AB - Most native speakers of Spanish are intuitively able to construct correct structures with the marker 'se'. On the other hand, non-native speakers, even those at advanced proficiency levels, have difficulties producing most constructions with 'se'. This is hardly surprising as the marker 'se', one of the most common words in Spanish, can convey highly pragmatic nuances with a variety of functions that are still much debated among linguists. This study analyses some of the most used functions of the marker in the oral production of 18 Peninsular Spanish speakers from a multimodal Cognitive Grammar approach, identifying how gestures might be employed by speakers to create or clarify meaning. Our results confirm that gestures are used differently depending on the function of the marker. Middle voices where 'se' marks high levels of subject involvement and/or energy co-occur with related gestures, while middle voices or impersonal structures, where the involvement and/or energy is low, co-occur more often with unrelated gestures, if any.
KW - cognitive grammar
KW - gesture
KW - se
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095433640&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/cog-2019-0089
DO - 10.1515/cog-2019-0089
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85095433640
SN - 0936-5907
VL - 31
SP - 677
EP - 710
JO - Cognitive Linguistics
JF - Cognitive Linguistics
IS - 4
ER -