https://hdl.handle.net/2072/478819 2026-04-20T00:11:31Z https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228909 La puntuación y el significado del texto Figueras, Carolina ¿En qué consiste exactamente puntuar de modo adecuado un texto? Desde la perspectiva normativa, la puntuación se ha concebido siempre como un capítulo más de la ortografía. Ahora bien, los patrones normativos que regulan los usos de los signos de puntuación no resultan de tan estricto cumplimiento como los relativos a la escritura de las palabras. Hay margen suficiente para un empleo flexible y, en según qué entornos comunicativos, extremadamente creativo del sistema tradicional de la puntuación. 2026-04-14T14:28:30Z https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228911 El español en la mente de sus hablantes : Una exploración desde la dialectología perceptiva Illamola i Gómez, Cristina En el estudio de las variedades del español, los especialistas han trazado mapas lingüísticos basados en características fonéticas, gramaticales y léxicas, construyendo una visión rigurosa de cómo el idioma varía a lo largo del mundo hispanohablante. Sin embargo, existe otro mapa —menos formal pero igualmente revelador— que vive en la mente de los hablantes: aquel que refleja cómo perciben y valoran las distintas variedades. Este contraste entre el análisis científico de las lenguas y las percepciones sociales de quienes las hablan es el terreno de la dialectología perceptiva, una disciplina heredera de la denominada «lingüística popular» (Preston 1981, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2010; Moreno Fernández 2015: 219) que nos invita a explorar no solo cómo hablamos, sino cómo sentimos y evaluamos nuestra forma de hablar y la de los demás. 2026-04-14T16:50:11Z https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228910 Doing emotions and displaying empathy: the construction of online peer support Figueras, Carolina A variety of computer-mediated health support groups populate the internet. The aim of Chapter 5 is to compare the ways to do emotions and to display empathy in two online mental health forums: one dedicated to borderline personality disorder (BPD) and the other to eating disorders (ED). The analysis focuses on the use of the perceptual verb ‘to feel’ in both sites. Two patterns of expression of emotions, related to the particularities of each mental health condition, emerged. For the participants in the ED forum, bodily sensations superseded emotions, to the point that the discursive construction of the self was dependent on their physical perceptions. In the BPD group, emotionally bounded states were the main concern shared by members to relate to each other and to somehow anchor an unstable sense of self. In both communities, feelings and emotions were embedded in empathic displays when providing highly person-centred support. 2026-04-14T16:05:25Z https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228870 Mitigation in discourse: Social, cognitive and affective motivations when exchanging advice Figueras, Carolina The present study explores the mitigating meaning within an empirical discourse analysis framework that integrates its cognitive, emotive, relational, situational, and linguistic components. Mitigation is understood as a psychological category to cope with one or more stressors in communication. The mitigating apparatus is instantiated in discourse with the goal of managing interactants' vulnerabilities. This conceptual framework is applied to examine the mitigation strategies devised by participants in an online forum for recovery from an eating disorder. The analysis reveals that participants in the site resort to different mitigation patterns to perform the acts of advice solicitation and advice provision. Advice seekers use mitigation devices and discursive moves to tune the illocutionary force of their requests to the audience, to modulate their self-presentation agenda to the forum normative requirements (facework) and to cope with the stressor of the illness. Advice providers, in contrast, produce a comprehensive body of mitigating strategies related to the notions of empathy and perspective-taking, two cognitive constructs that are negotiated, represented and managed interactionally. Mitigation, therefore, constitutes an instrumental and motivational category that shapes the ways of dealing with multiple stressors and multidimensional vulnerabilities in discourse. 2026-04-13T16:04:22Z