J. Scott Despain

List of John Benjamins publications for which J. Scott Despain plays a role.

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Michnowicz, Jim, J. Scott Despain and Rebecca Gorham 2016 The changing system of Costa Rican pronouns of address: Tuteo, voseo, and ustedeo Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene and Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.), pp. 243–266 | Article
This study examines the reported use of three forms of address (tú, vos, usted) in Costa Rican Spanish. Previous studies indicate three phenomena of interest: (1) Usted is used with [+solidarity] interlocutors; (2) While tuteo has been historically absent, some studies suggest an increase in tuteo… read more