Abstract
This article analyzes the semantic and pragmatic factors influencing the use of the impersonal uno in the Spanish of Bogota. By means of a variationist approach, and based on the results from the statistical program Goldvarb, we note a reduction of the degree of impersonality expressed by uno, because it is used more as a marker of speaker stance (subjectification of discourse), than a mechanism to reduce prominence. The results of variables of verbal semantics, type of discourse, and kind of interview support that uno is used almost with the same referential functions as yo with verbs of emotion, mental activities and states, narrations and hypothetical situations, and in informal and spontaneous interactions. These results suggest that it has lost its former socio-pragmatic connotation as an overuse typical of individuals from lower economic and education levels.Metrics
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