The New Voseo Culto: An Exploration of the Complexity of Familiar Address in Chilean Spanish

In Chilean Spanish, second-person address is non-uniform in that the vos competes with the conventional tuteo and a third, mixed form has emerged. To add to this complexity, the form speakers choose has been shown to correspond to socioeconomic strata. Upper classes use tú, lower classes use vos, and young, middle class speakers choose the mixed form in which the verb is conjugated according to the voseo and is used with the pronoun tú. The causes and effects of this second-person schism in Chile are explored here, as well as the resulting sociolinguistic issues and consequences. In a study of printed media, television and interviewed informants, an attempt is made to confirm and validate the complexity of address in Chilean Spanish and determine the degree of the mixed voseo‟s pervasion into the mainstream.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Foreign Languages

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Rouse, Patrick Roy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mondada, Joke
• Garcia Castellon, Manuel
• Artigas, Maria del Carmen

• Chilean Spanish
• Chilean voseo
• voseo culto
• mixed voseo
• voseo
• tuteo
• second-person singular address
• second-person models
• familiar address
• familiar dialog
• Andrés Bello
• Advertencias sobre el uso de la lengua castellana
• Gramática de la lengua castellana
• prescriptivism
• language policy
• sociolinguistic stratification
• linguistic schism
• solidarity
• second-person formal
• sociolinguistic stigma
• stigmatized voseo
• voseo morphology
• voseo syntax
• morpho-syntax
• history of voseo

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https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1118

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oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2099