1. Usos americanos de su merced en el siglo XIX.
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Álvarez López, Laura and Bertolotti, Virginia
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SPANISH language -- Terms & phrases , *FORMS of address , *SPANISH language , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY - Abstract
This paper is an empirical study of the presence of the address form su merced in the XIX century, particularly in Latin American literary texts representing the speech of Africans and their descendants, based on examples taken from Lipski (2005a, 2005b) and texts included in CORDE. Based on data found in other corpora, the discussion also includes uses of su merced in official written communication. It reviews earlier studies about su merced in Latin America and concludes that this address form appears in the context of asymmetrical social relations between groups and especially in the speech of Africans and their descendants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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