Andrea Pizarro Pedraza

Université Catholique de Louvain - UCLouvain -Saint-Louis-Bruxelles

Streaming platforms have transformed series distribution and accessibility, with Spanish-language shows gaining immense popularity, notably “La casa de papel” (Money Heist). This series features a diverse cast of characters whose linguistic diversity extends to the use of taboo language. Previous studies have shown that linguistic immersion, such a...

Las características singulares del tabú desde el punto de vista semántico y sociolingüístico lo convierten en una herramienta potentísima de construcción de significado social. Aunque los estudios de la sociolingüística variacionista hispánica han aumentado en los últimos años, son escasas las interpretaciones de la variación del tabú como recurso...

This report is part of the project 2O2CM Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives to Climate Change Mitigation: A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences, funded by Solstice (JPI Climate). The goals of this analysis are to understand “how climate change is depicted and communicated in Twitter; what are the obstacles to the adoption of att...

The stem #jesuis followed by a toponym (e.g. #jesuisParis) has proved to be very productive in the gathering of affective publics (Papacharissi 2015) around causes of mourning, after terrorist attacks and other disasters. However, not all attacks have given rise to such massive affective use of #jesuis hashtags. Our goal is to examine how Twitter u...

This paper introduces MadSex, a spoken corpus of 54 sociolinguistic interviews in Spanish based on the topic of sexuality. It was collected in order to study the cognitive sociolinguistic variation of sexual concepts. The paper presents and justifies methodological decisions taken during design, collection and transcription stages. Informants were...

o En este análisis, abordamos la atenuación en español desde la variación entre géneros discursivos orales (conversaciones, interacciones en clase, debates parlamentarios y entrevistas sociolingüísticas). Basándonos en el análisis de Briz (2007) de la atenuación en conversaciones informales y entrevistas, en la propuesta de Fraser (1990) y Blas Arr...

After the creation of the hashtag #jesuisCharlie, the root #jesuis has become extremely productive. Although most uses of the hashtag are supportive of a cause, there are also some examples of critical uses of hashtags with the #jesuis root. In this paper, we will analyse these non-conforming #jesuis hashtags in a corpus of 1309 automatically extra...

Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the phenomenon, especially from cognitive frameworks. This volume is the first collection of papers dealing with lingu...

This chapter is a cognitive sociolinguistic approach to the preferences for direct versus indirect construals and their social meanings. The study is based on the analysis of 906 expressions of sexual concepts (body parts and physiological processes) from the corpus MadSex (Pizarro Pedraza, 2013). These are divided in direct (based on sexual concep...

In this article, we show how the hashtag #jesuisCharlie , created following the attack on Charlie Hebdo , gave rise to the use of many other hashtags starting with #jesuis , across languages. Through a corpus-based analysis, we show how the meaning of #jesuis broadened from expressing condolence and support following terrorist attacks over expressi...

This paper analyses the linguistic resources used by speakers to profile the participants in taboo actions, focusing on expressions for the concept abortar 'to abort' in Spanish sociolinguistic interviews. The tokens referring to the action are analysed in terms of linguistic features that affect agentivity at the level of verbs, subjects and objec...

This chapter explores the applicability of the pragmeme framework (Mey 2001; Capone 2005; Allan 2010) to sociolinguistic interviews. It presents an analysis in terms of frequency of speakers’ answers to the same sequence of questions – specifically, polar questions – in a set of interviews in Spanish. The results show that, rather than a single pol...

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Two key elements reveal a step change in Sociolinguistics towards a more flexible perspective: the study of semantic variation and the inclusion of microsociological variables. This article is a theoretical proposal to combine the two perspectives that are responsible for this change: respectively, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and the Third Wave of V...

In this paper, we defend the study of semantic variation from a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective. Through a case study on the semantic variation of ‘abortion’ in Spanish newspapers' comments, we investigate quantitatively the influence of the independent factors (‘source’, ‘date’, ‘ideology’, ‘gender’, ‘quote’) on conceptual onomasiological v...