%0 Journal Article 
%A Lavender, Jordan
%T Usted of solidarity in Azogues, Ecuador: an analysis of data from Facebook Messenger

%D 2017
%@ 1697-0780
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/34173
%X This study examines the use of usted in family context and among friends in the Facebook Messenger (FBM) conversations of two Ecuadorian informants from Azogues, Ecuador. This study contributes to expanding current understanding of how forms of address are used in Ecuadorian Spanish (Placencia 1997, 19998, 2001, 2004, 2007, etc.), particularly in examining data from Azogues, a town in the Cañar Province, both the provincial capital and forming part of the Cuenca metropolitan area. It interprets the use of usted among close friends and family as evidence of an usted of solidarity (Uber 1984, 1985, 2011). This study finds that the use of usted of solidarity by Ecuadorian speakers is similar to its use in Bogotá (Uber 2011). It is characterized by co-occurrence with nominal address forms such as kinship and hypocoristic terms at a higher frequency than with non-solidarity forms of usted and tú.

%K Pronouns of address
%K Nominal forms of address
%K Ustedeo
%K Sociolinguistics
%K CMC
%K Pronombres de tratamiento
%K Formas de tratamiento nominales
%K Ustedeo
%K Sociolingüística
%K CMC
%K Humanidades
%K Humanities
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala