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GALLUCCI, María José. I say: "All right, from Venezuela, Caracas, and from the interior, Petare": Quotes in Direct and Indirect Style in the Spanish Spoken in Caracas. Núcleo [online]. 2012, vol.24, n.29, pp.11-37. ISSN 0798-9784.
In this article, I analyze quotes in direct and indirect styles used by a sample of 16 speakers with low educational attainment, taken from the Corpus sociolingüístico del habla de Caracas, Preseea-Caracas 2004-2010. The analysis was carried out on the basis of Galluccis (2010) model and it focuses on the following aspects: types of quotes, grammatical forms that introduce quotes, lexical meaning of the conjugated verb decir, speech attribution and pragmatic functions of quotes. Additionally, quoting procedures were analyzed according to both age and sex. Results show the following: speakers prefer to use the direct style; quotations with and without verbs are used in the same proportion; the conjugated verb decir is mostly used to mean manifestar (express an idea); speakers prefer to quote somebody elses words, and the preferred pragmatic function of quotes is to narrate an anecdote. The analysis of the social variables shows that quotes are mostly used by the younger speakers and women of the sample.
Palavras-chave : quotes; direct discourse; indirect discourse; Spanish spoken in Caracas.