Estrategias pragmáticas en correos electrónicos académicos de Argentina y España

Abstract

E-mails have become an essential tool in academic communication and, especially, between teachers and students. The article presents the results of a social habits test (Hernández-Flores, 2002), distributed in two university campus: Viedma (Argentina) and Segovia (Spain). The research objectives are (1) the analysis of the strategies used in speech acts of request according to different interlocutors and (2) the contrastive study of the data, in order to identify if there are tendencies that differentiate the uses of two Spanish varieties speakers. Our starting hypothesis is that students will modify their strategies while participating in various interaction situations. The results indicate that, although both groups resort to a delimited set of pragmatic strategies, the Argentinean students exhibit a wider set of resources in each message.