Fien De Latte

Fien De Latte
Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Linguistics

Postdoctoral researcher

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Introduction
Fien De Latte is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Hispanic Linguistics at Ghent University (Belgium). Her research focuses on nominal terms of address in Spanish and adopts a cognitive-functional and corpus-based perspective.

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Publications (8)
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In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is recognized as a catalyst for language change. Since adolescents aspire to create and safeguard an in-group identity, they constantly generate innovative linguistic forms. However...
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The central aim of this paper is to examine the formal, functional and sociolinguistic variation of the vocative in contemporary Madrilenian Spanish. For this purpose, vocative occurrences found in spontaneous conversations between Madrilenian speakers in the Corpus Oral de Madrid-2016 are analyzed. The vocative is considered a strikingly productiv...
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This paper investigates the formal and functional variation of the vocative in contemporary Spanish teenage talk. For this purpose, all vocative occurrences found in conversations between teenagers in the Corpus Oral de Madrid-2016 are analyzed. The vocative is known to be highly productive in Spanish teenage talk, on both formal and functional lev...
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CORMA is a corpus of peninsular Spanish including spontaneous conversations recorded in Madrid between 2016 and 2019. The corpus was compiled in order to remedy the scarce documentation of 21st century colloquial Spanish. Indeed, a short overview of the corpora of conversational Spanish shows that there is a sharp contrast between the increasing in...
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In spoken Spanish, a wide variety of vocative expressions is used to signal an affective, close relationship between the interlocutors. Within this paradigm of the so-called terms of endearment, aesthetic adjectives stand out as markers of affection and tenderness towards the interlocutor. The present study sheds light on the main formal and functi...
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The present study aims to examine the socio-pragmatic scope of vocatives in present-day colloquial Spanish. As prototypical deictic markers, directly calling upon the addressee, vocatives are considered crucial mechanisms in the creation and maintaining of interpersonal relationships during interaction. This deictic potential makes them highly appr...
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Resumen La presente contribución indaga en la difusión de los vocativos representativos del cheli en las décadas posteriores al auge contracultural, y más allá, en los factores subyacentes al cambio lingüístico micro-diacrónico. Más en concreto, se estudia empíricamente cómo se han propagado los vocativos contraculturales de mayor importancia en el...
Thesis
This Master's dissertation focuses on the formal, functional and sociolinguistic variation of vocatives in the Spanish of Madrid, on the basis of empirical corpus data. You can download the file from: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:002349216

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