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SANDOVAL CARCAMO, Jorge  y  SAN MARTIN NUNEZ, Abelardo. ATTENUATION MODAL MARKERS COMO (QUE), IGUAL, MEDIO/A, DE REPENTE AND CAPAZ (QUE) IN SANTIAGO, CHILE'S SPEECH: PRAGMATIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS. Nueva rev. Pac. [online]. 2020, n.72, pp.144-172. ISSN 0716-6346.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0719-51762020000100144.

This paper analyzes the pragmatic behavior and the sociolinguistic stratification of the attenuation modalities: como (que), igual, medio/a, de repente, and capaz (que) in Santiago's speech. Specifically, these particles are approached as resources of the pragmatic-discursive function of attenuating modality, in relation to the type of discursive gender and its preferred syntactic-pragmatic position, as well as the correlation of its employment with the sociodemographic factors: sex-gender, age and socioeconomic group of speakers. The main findings show that the attenuation modality como (que) has the highest frequency of use in the sample, while age is the sociodemographic factor most sensitive to the use of this type of particles.

Palabras clave : discursive particle; modalization; attenuation; sociolinguistics; Chilean Spanish.

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