Perspectivas (socio)lingüísticas complementarias en el estudio de la variación y el cambio lingüístico en español

摘要

The purpose of this article is to show the form in which diverse theoretical approaches to thestudy of language with different (socio)linguistic interests –if they are classified this way ornot in the specialized bibliography– can achieve diverse, but also complementary results, inthe analysis of variation and language change in Spanish. From this general aim, the paper isdevoted to discuss two interrelated objects: a) to review the main sides of contemporarysociolinguistic research, highlighting those having a clearer relationship with disciplines thatalso show an interest for the study of language in communicative context, like pragmaticsand the analysis of interactions; and b) approaching from these different perspectives someoutstanding questions in the research of Spanish language from synchronic as well asdiachronic points of view. In this regard, the author comments diverse references of recentHispanic bibliography about some topics (discourse markers, conversational routines,paralinguistic aspects of conversations, code-switching, pronouns, politeness strategies…),including his own research about some of them. As a main conclusion of this review, andcontrary to more purist and restrictive approaches to the study of language, he concludes thatthis community of theoretical and methodological interests is not only licit from a scientificpoint of view, but also very beneficial for present sociolinguistics, whose seminal objectiveshould be the analysis of language in social as well as in communicative context.