El vocativo en el español coloquial actual : Variación pragmática, socio-indexical e interindividual (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie)

This monograph addresses the multidimensional variation of the vocative in current colloquial Spanish. From a cognitive approach, it analyzes its distribution as a function of linguistic, socio-situational and interindividual factors linked to personality. The results of this qualitative-quantitative analysis underline the key role of the vocativo in interaction management and in the interlocutors' identity construction.

Fien De Latte, Ghent University, Belgium.