Forms of forgiveness, repentance and apologies in the history of spanish. An approach using textual analysis

This article studies apology speech-acts in the Spanish language from the 12th to the 19th century. Using data provided by the Corpus diacrónico del español (CORDE), it analyses the lexical fields to forgive, to blame, to apologise, to excuse, to regret and to be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Medina López, Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3867
Acceso en línea:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3867
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Historical pragmatics
speech acts
apologies
textual analysis
history of Spanish language
pragmática histórica
actos de habla
disculpas
análisis textual
historia del español
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Sumario:This article studies apology speech-acts in the Spanish language from the 12th to the 19th century. Using data provided by the Corpus diacrónico del español (CORDE), it analyses the lexical fields to forgive, to blame, to apologise, to excuse, to regret and to be sorry and attempts to classify several thematic areas within the general concept of apologies.  It concludes that apologies are linked from the very beginning to Catholicism and from there spread to civil society in a slow and complex process of secularization.