Análisis de los mecanismos de (des)cortesía en español en el género epistolarsiglos XVI - XIX

Résumé

This doctoral thesis focuses on the study of verbal (im)politeness in classical and modern Spanish (16th-19th centuries). The main objective is to offer a panoramic view of the repertoire of linguistic constructions used in peninsular and rioplatense Spanish to carry out directive and expressive speech acts (thanks, apologies, greetings and farewells) in a particular discursive genre: the epistolary. The small-scale corpus on which this research is based is formed, in turn, by two sub-corpora of a different nature: corpus 1 is made up of seven hundred and fifty private letters, ninety-one of which have been transcribed and subsequently digitised by the author herself. These epistolary documents allow us to study verbal interactions in the historical period in question. For its part, corpus 2 is made up of six epistolary manuals, two royal pragmatics and eight treatises on civility, normative texts which have provided us with prescriptive information on the linguistic uses of the speakers of the period under study.