"El secretario español" de Carlos Pellicer como protopragmática y catálogo de los tratamientos nominales y pronominales del español del siglo XIX
ISSN: 1803-7399
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 1
Pages: 119-148
Type: Article
More publications in: Etudes romanes de Brno
Abstract
The Spanish Secretary or New Textbook of Letters and Replies to them, by Carlos Pellicer, is the subject of this work. We use the 1861 edition (Madrid, José Cuesta), but we explain the whole textual tradition of the book. Using the frame of Historical Pragmatics, the research purpose is to contextualize Pellicer's work in the genre of letters textbooks and to sum up his main (proto)pragmatical ideas, which forecast classical conceptions from the modern Pragmatics studies regarding address forms, such as Brown/Gilman (1960) and Brown/Levinson (1987 [1978]). A catalogue of the nominal and pronominal address forms of the book is also displayed, as a synthesis of the address forms used in Spain at the time.