Topic and topicality in texta contrastive study of English and Spanish narrative texts
- Raquel Hildalgo
- Angela Downing 1
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
info
- Maite Taboada (coord.)
- Susana Doval Suárez (coord.)
- Elsa González Álvarez (coord.)
Editorial: Equinox
ISBN: 9781908049759
Año de publicación: 2013
Páginas: 183-207
Tipo: Capítulo de Libro
Resumen
In this chapter, topic and topicality are explored through the application of a model of analysis to a bilingual sample of English and Spanish written narrative texts in equivalent genres. The results of the analysis show that aboutness topics and frame-setting topics are cross-linguistically stable categories, although language-specific differences are found in the syntactic coding, for instance in how Spanish marks topicless sentences.