Reacciones basadas en emojis a dicha construcción en español e inglés

Alicia Stevers

doi:10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n3.id391

Abstract

The said construction (SC), a relatively common but understudied standard English construction, is usually characterized by the use of said in place of a determiner, followed by a noun (N2), typically given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent noun (N1). (e.g. “I made coffee… said coffee was bitter.”) I present the results of a social media based experiment, focusing on the way participants react to SC-containing sentences using the “reactions” buttons provided on many social media sites. Participants were presented with stimuli that looked like a Facebook profile; each item in the experiment had a “profile photo”, a sentence that contained either a standard determiner like the or that, or SC, as well as an emoji-based reactions schema with the reaction options provided on Facebook. Participants were told to read each sentence and react to it using the provided emoji buttons. Results showed that SC-containing sentences were more likely to receive the “

Highlights

This study on the Said Construction (SC) is rooted in the sociolinguistic concept of social meaning, defined as “social content tied in the minds of a given speaker/hearer to a particular piece of linguistic behavior (CAMPBELL-KIBLER 2009)
The laughter/haha emoji is the only emoji that differs by a larger range, showing that participants are more likely to react to sentences containing SC with a humorous response than sentences that contain a standard determiner
The goal was to see if a reaction could be predicted by the type of determiner used in the sentence, by looking for a correlation between an SC-containing sentence and the use of a emoji as opposed to this same emoji with a standard determiner-containing sentence

Summary

Introduction

This study on the Said Construction (SC) is rooted in the sociolinguistic concept of social meaning, defined as “social content tied in the minds of a given speaker/hearer to a particular piece of linguistic behavior (CAMPBELL-KIBLER 2009). Determiners, generally considered a small, closed word class, do not seem to be a lexical category ripe for social meaning potential. The present work builds upon this finding, showing that said used as a determiner can potentially convey a humorous meaning. Traditionally considered an adjective in dictionaries and grammar guides, the motivation for thinking of SC as a determiner construction is based on a corpus-based study showing that said interacts with information much like a determiner does; it is sensitive to notions of information status and has a referential quality that other adjectives lack (STEVERS 2020). Examples 1a and 1b below demonstrate the two most common informational environments in which SC can be found, as well as an ungrammatical example where it is used with inferrable information (STEVERS 2020)

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