Atenuación y expansión de ahorita en la Ciudad de México, un cambio analizado desde el tiempo aparente

In Mexico City there are contexts in which ahorita (now + diminutive) cannot be interpreted as punctual or as close to the moment of speech. This behavior is investigated as a consequence of a semantic attenuation process, under the hypothesis of change in apparent time. Thereby, the speech of three...

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Auteur principal: Granados, Daniel
Format: Online
Langue:espagnol
Éditeur: El Colegio de México, A.C. 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/202
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Résumé:In Mexico City there are contexts in which ahorita (now + diminutive) cannot be interpreted as punctual or as close to the moment of speech. This behavior is investigated as a consequence of a semantic attenuation process, under the hypothesis of change in apparent time. Thereby, the speech of three generations of speakers from Mexico City was analyzed, and it was found that ahorita has spread to contexts incompatible with the features of punctuality and closeness to the moment of speech among younger speakers, displacing ahora (now) in certain cases.