Spanish C2 · Day 26
Day 26: Cara social en la entrevista institucional — Word formation through Spanish suffixes (part 1)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Word formation through Spanish suffixes (part 1)
- Reading: La cara fuera del acta
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Grammar point: Word formation through Spanish suffixes (part 1)
At C2, word formation helps you control the judgement built into a scholarly term. In institutional interview research, the contrast between formal and formalista is particularly useful. Formal identifies a perspective concerned with ceremonial procedure; formalista typically criticises an account that gives form excessive explanatory power.
Key vocabulary (8 of 21 words)
- la labor de imagen (técnico) – interactional work that protects dignity and a speaker's self-image
- la amenaza a la cara (técnico) – a move that jeopardises someone's social face
- la asimetría de tratamiento (técnico) – unequal choice of address between speakers
- el cambio de tratamiento – a switch between forms of address
- el plano relacional – relational layer of talk
- la marca de distancia (técnico) – wording that signals social distance
- la confiancilla – presumptuous demand for closeness
- la estrategia deferente (técnico) – linguistic means of showing deference
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