Studies about “discourse markers” have coincided in stressing their importance to the production and comprehension of discourse, both oral and written, in different languages. Despite their importance, one of the less investigated dimensions in the Spanish language is the social and dialectal variation in the use of the aforementioned particles. Thus, the majority of the approaches to the discursive functions of the markers have a tendency to be based on peninsular Spanish and on reconstructed examples or on written language. In this study, the pragmatic functioning and sociolinguistic stratification of two markers used in the Spanish spoken in Santiago, Chile are analyzed: por ser and onda. The objectives of this article are to identify the functions said discourse markers fulfill and to correlate their use frequency with the sex, age, and level of education sociodemographic variables. For this purpose, the behavior of these particles in the interviews that make up the sociolinguistic corpus of the PRESEEA of Santiago will be analyzed.
San Martín Núñez, A., Rojas Inostroza, C., & Guerrero González, S. (2017). The discourse function and the social distribution of the markers "por ser" and "onda" in the PRESEEA corpus from Santiago de Chile. Boletín De Filología, 51(2), 235–254. Retrieved from https://anuariocdh.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/44878
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