Las formas de tratamiento en la tradición académica del español

The study of the Spanish address forms constitutes one of the greatest challenges in the domain of the empirical research, due to their great variability in the level of the form and in the use of the language in the pan-hispanic context. In this work we focus, specifically, on the evolution registered in the presentation of the address forms in the Spanish academic tradition. For that, we have examined the address pronouns in the grammars published by the Royal Spanish Academy during the XX and the XXI centuries, or in those sponsored by this institution. In this analysis, we observe the differences between these publications, regarding the information included about the form and the use of the address pronouns tú, vos, usted/ustedes and vosotros: usted (and its plural ustedes) as a formal address form, the differences between the address forms in the European and the American Spanish, the tuteo and the voseo phenomena, and the sociolinguistic and pragmatic variables taken into account in the choice of the different address forms.