Acerca de las fórmulas rutinarias
About Conversational Routines

Summary/Abstract: Among Spanish phraseological units as a whole, the conversational routines fill an important space because of their wide number and their usage frequency in the informal register. Although many authors were interested in studying them, there are no studies concerning them in profundity yet. The present study has multiple aims and each of them tightly corresponds to a specific section of this paper: fundamentally, in the first pages we are interested in the definition of the conversational routines and their distinctions from other phraseological units; for this purpose the thoughts of the most important scholars in this field are to be reviewed. In the second part the aim is to make a complete distinction of the structures by checking the characteristics that differentiate them from other phraseological units. In the third part, which is only a starting point for the scholars, as it is for us, who are already widening the purpose in another work, we concentrate on how to construct a dictionary: how to choose the conversational routines and which information about them to offer to the users; how to choose contexts for a better understanding of the structures, etc. The locutions which conform to our proposal, extracted according to exhaustive standards from the phraseological units as a whole, have the words ver and decir as their lexical centre and are placed in the lexicographical articles of the words ver and decir. The Diccionario del Español Actual (DEA) by M. Seco has been used.

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