This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaningin all its possible facetsas the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars whose work pursues the systematic integration of meaning and function in models of grammatical usage. After a foreword by the world-leading specialist Nikolas Coupland and a theoretical introduction by editors Miguel A. Aijón Oliva and Marķa José Serrano, the seven empirical chapters focus on morphosyntactic phenomena in different varieties of Spanish, analyzing a wide range of discourse types and communicative domains, from sociolinguistic interviews to mass media and social network interactions. These studies offer a basis for the study of variation from similar viewpoints in other languages.
Nikolas Coupland: Foreword Miguel A. Aijón Oliva/Marķa José Serrano:
Introduction: Variation, choice, and the construction of meaning Antonio
Fįbregas: Variation, syntax, and semantics: Person features and the non-
specific reading of participants Marķa José Serrano: Variation of the
independent infinitive and the desubjectivizing viewpoint of discourse
Miguel A. Aijón Oliva: Defocusing constructions, viewpoint, and reference:
The shaping of public institutions vs. citizens in digital opinion pieces
Benjamin Mielenz: Variation in hypothetical conditional structures in the
Spanish of Astorga Dania Ramos Martķn: Subject position in Hispanic yes/
no interrogatives: A description according to utterance pragmatic function
and geographical variation in a corpus of written speech Francisco Javier
Garcķa Yanes: A semantic approach to mood variation: Habitual and factual
clauses introduced by después (de) que Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo:
Understanding the Focalizing Ser structure: Going beyond syntax.
Marķa José Serrano is a Full Professor of Linguistics at the Universidad de La Laguna (Spain). Her main areas of expertise include morphosyntactic variation from a discursive-pragmatic and cognitive approach, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
Miguel A. Aijón Oliva is a Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). His research activity focuses on variation in grammar from functional and sociopragmatic viewpoints, particularly in mass media and digital environments.
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