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This paper explores the relationship between epistemic (a)symmetries and mitigation in three different genres (conversation, interview and monologue) through the study of a specific form: the Spanish discourse maker ¿no? To do so, an analysis combining qualitative and quantitative methods has been carried out. The main results show how the differen...
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... Además de los trabajos anteriores, centrados en la descripción de las funciones de marcadores del discurso, existen estudios que se han dedicado a analizar específicamente el valor que '¿no?' puede desarrollar como un recurso de cortesía (Landone, 2010;Brenes, 2011), y en ellos se destaca su papel en relación con la atenuación. Por último, se ha estudiado la función atenuante de '¿no?' desde una perspectiva intergenérica (Uclés, 2017), diatópica (Uclés, 2018) y en relación con la gestión de los derechos epistémicos (Uclés, 2020). ...
In this paper the functions of the Spanish discourse marker ¿no? are analysed from a pragmatic and an interactive perspective. Specifically, we explore the values of ¿no? taking the pragmatic phenomena of mitigation and boosting, as well as the notion of affiliation as described in conversation analysis. The previous literature devoted to the study of this linguistic form has consistently identified its uses as a confirmation request or a phatic device (Fuentes, 1990, 2009; Santos Río, 2003; García Vizcaíno, 2005; Montañez, 2008, 2015; Rodríguez Muñoz, 2009; Móccero, 2010; Santana, 2017). This work, however, analyses how the mitigating uses interact and share features with neighbouring categories such as boosting and affiliation. As a result, this allows not only to gain a better grasp of how ¿no? works, but also to establish how these concepts interact and intersect with each other.
